Our Father’s Business: (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
I.THE NOVICE.IT is near morning. Ere the next night fall I shall be made the bride of heaven. Then home ...
IT is a moor Barren and treeless; lying high and bare Beneath the arch?d sky. The rushing winds Fly over ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time. The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes These lads ...
THE thin white snow-streaks pencilling That mountain's shoulder gray, While in the west the pale green sky Smiled back the ...
An Old Man's Confession SHE has a large still heart--this lady of mine, (Not mine, i'faith! nor would I that ...
The Temple in DarknessDarkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, ...
I.THE great human whirlpool--'t is seething and seething: On! No time for shrieking out--scarcely for breathing: All toiling and moiling, ...
O LIVE! (Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,-- Each held by such slight links, so oft removed ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we ...
Returned from the Dead-Letter OfficeTHANK you for your kindness, Lady fair and wise, Though love's famed for blindness, Lovers--hem! for ...
AH me, how heavily the night comes down, Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue hills' serried throng, The ...
LEONORA, Leonora, How the word rolls--Leonora-- Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime-- ...
O COUSIN Robert, far away Among the lands of gold, How many years since we two met?-- You would not ...
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
PLANT it safe and sure, my child, Then cease watching and cease weeping; You have done your utmost part: Leave ...
O SUDDEN blast, that through this silence black Sweeps past my windows, Coming and going with invisible track As death ...
THEY lie, with upraised hands, and feet Stretched like dead feet that walk no more, And stony masks oft human ...
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you ...
Parting for Australia.HERE sitting by the fire I aspire, love, I aspire-- Not to that "other world" of your fond ...
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, Marking the slow ...
IT dressed itself in green leaves all the summer long, Was full of chattering starlings, loud with throstles' song. Children ...
SMALL wren, mute pecking at the last red plum Or twittering idly at the yellowing boughs Fruit-emptied, over thy forsaken ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
SURELY, dame Nature made you in some dream Of old-world women--Chriemhild, or bright Aslauga, or Boadicea fierce and fair, Or ...
IN his wide fields walks the Master, In his fair fields, ripe for harvest, Where the evening sun shines slant-wise ...
REST--rest--four little letters, one short word, Enfolding an infinitude of bliss-- Rest is upon the earth. The heavy clouds Hang ...
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