Messiah's Kingdom

Messiah's Kingdom is a long poem by Agnes Bulmer.[1] It was published in 1833. It is regarded as the longest poem written by a woman.[2][3] It consists of some 14,000 lines grouped in twelve books. The poem is written in heroic couplet[4] but the introduction is made up of four 13-line stanzas like this one:

Of Him, high raised on Heaven's stupendous throne,
Beneath whose feet the sapphire pavement glows;
O'er whose intensest splendours, dread, unknown,
The beaming bow its milder radiance throws;
Around whose state, in bright attendance, close
The full-toned choir of harping cherubim.
Seraphs, whose robes empyreal lights compose,
And angels, breathing soft the' adoring hymn:—
Of Him, Eternal, Infinite, Supreme,
Fain would a mortal Muse, adventurous, sing;
Him, for archangel minds too vast a theme,
Who yet, when babes their meek hosannas bring,
Inclines with gentlest grace, and veils in Mercy's wing.

The poet was praised for "harmonious versification".[5] The poem was reviewed also in The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review.[6]

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