Chillingham (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
I Through the sunny garden The humming bees are still; The fir climbs the heather, The heather climbs the hill. The low clouds have riven A ...
I Through the sunny garden The humming bees are still; The fir climbs the heather, The heather climbs the hill. The low clouds have riven A ...
As Christ the Lord was passing by, He came, one night, to a cottage door. He came, a poor man, to the ...
I sat before my glass one day,And conjured up a vision bare,Unlike the aspects glad and gay,That erst were found ...
MOTHER of God! no lady thou: Common woman of common earthOur Lady ladies call thee now, But Christ was never of gentle ...
I HAVE walked a great while over the snow,And I am not tall nor strong.My clothes are wet, and my ...
TURN in, my lord, she said ; As it were the Father of Sin I have hated the Father of the Dead, The ...
We are not near enough to love,I can but pity all your woe;For wealth has lifted me above,And falsehood set ...
We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,And the door stood open at our feast,When there passed ...
Country roads are yellow and brown. We mend the roads in London town. Never a hansom dare come nigh, Never a cart goes ...
Oh, a gallant set were they,As they charged on us that day,A thousand riding like one!Their trumpets crying,And their white ...
GOOD FRIDAY in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the Disciples when they fled, My words the words ...
A green eye-and a red-in the dark.Thunder-smoke-and a spark.It is there-it is here-flashed by.Whither will the wild thing fly?It is ...
When my love did what I would not, what I would not,I could hear his merry voice upon the wind,Crying, ...
There's no smoke in the chimney, And the rain beats on the floor; There's no glass in the window, There's no wood in ...
On alien ground, breathing an alien air,A Roman stood, far from his ancient home,And gazing, murmured,"Ah, the hills are fair, But ...
The earth that made the rose,She also is thy mother, and not I.The flame wherewith thy maiden spirit glowsWas lighted ...
Strange Power, I know not what thou art,Murderer or mistress of my heart.I know I'd rather meet the blowOf my ...
When wintry winds are no more heard,And joy's in every bosom,When summer sings in every bird,And shines in every blossom,When ...
Grant me but a day, love,But a day,Ere I give my heart,My heart away,Ere I say the wordI'll ne'er unsay.Is ...
Many a flower have I seen blossom, Many a bird for me will sing. Never heard I so sweet a singer, Never saw ...
BLUE is Our Lady's colour, White is Our Lord's.To-morrow I will wear a knot Of blue and white cords,That you may see ...
Egypt's might is tumbled downDown a-down the deeps of though;Greece is fallen and Troy town,Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,Venice' ...
WE never said farewell, nor even lookedOur last upon each other, for no signWas made when we the link(Mary Elizabeth ...
O LET me be in loving nice,Dainty, fine, and o'er precise,That I may charm my charm(Mary Elizabeth Coleridge)
The lake lay blue below the hill.O'er it, as I looked, there flewAcross the waters, cold and still,A bird whose ...
Some hang above the tombs, Some weep in empty rooms, I, when the iris blooms, Remember. I, when the cyclamen Opens her buds again, Rejoice a ...
The clouds had made a crimson crownAbove the mountains high.The stormy sun was going downIn a stormy sky.Why did you ...
Sunshine let it be or frost, Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost, Thee ...
I ask of thee, love, nothing but relief.Thou canst not bring the old days back again;For I was happy then,Not ...
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
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