Nurture Poems (32 Poems)
Moses In The Bulrushes. A Sacred Drama (Hannah More Poems)
“Let me assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to Man.” ~ Paradise Lost. Persons Of The Drama. Hebrew Woman.Jochebed, Mother of Moses.Miriam, his Sister. Egyptians.The Princess, King Pharaoh’s DaughterMelita; and other Attendants. SCENE– On the Banks of the … Continue reading
Eve Speaks (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
I Pause, God, and ponder, ere Thou judgest me. Though it be doomsday, and the trampling winds Rush blindly through the stark and cowering skies, Bearing Thy fearful mandate like a sword, I do not tremble, . . . I am unafraid. Though the red … Continue reading
Beechwood (John Freeman Poems)
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth’s still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery blue.Your voice I hear, flowing the valleys throughAfter the wind that tramples from the west.After the wind your boughs in … Continue reading
Poetic Lines, Addressed To Four Children (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon’s distant–and poor Peg is tir’d;Or, in other words–your friend’s not inspir’d!Yet, to please you, dear girls, I’ll endeavour to sayA something to … Continue reading
Desiderata – Words for Life (Max Ehrmann Poems)
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrenderbe on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly;and listen to others,even the dull and the ignorant;they too … Continue reading
The Winter Hyacinth (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Thou’rt beautiful, my flower, -my winter flower!-These many weeks I’ve watch’d thy graceful meshOf silvery roots, making their busy wayDown through the watery element, intentTo reach the bottom of thy crystal vase,That deck’d thy mantel. Then, came bursting forthFrom thy … Continue reading
To a Sister (James Hurdis Poems)
When kind Cecilia welcom’d to her breast The finch the schoolboy pilfer’d from its nest; And fed the nursling till its plumage grew,And its firm pinions with full vigour flew, She ope’d her chamber in the blaze of day,And bade the feather’d foundling … Continue reading
Buttercups and Daisies (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Buttercups and daisies growing everywhere,In the field of clover, on the hillside fair,And in lovely valley, tilled with greatest care. Naught but weeds and rubbish, in the farmer’s eyes,Drawing off the nurture from the grain they prize,And their great luxuriance … Continue reading
For Who? (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
When the heavens with stars are gleamingLike a diadem of light,And the moon’s pale rays are streaming,Decking earth with radiance bright;When the autumn’s winds are sighing,O’er the hill and o’er the lea,When the summer time is dying,Wanderer, wilt thou think … Continue reading
Lines; Addressed To The Right Hon. The Countess Of Farmham. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
FARNHAM! receive the mede of praise,An humble mede–whose meteor raysCannot illumine worth like thine;Worth , which with radiance divine,Displays itself by doing good,And nurturing a tender broodOf helpless orphans!–yet who ne’erFelt that deep loss–a mother’s care!For in thy tender arms … Continue reading