Nearer Home (Phoebe Cary Poems)
One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er;I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before;Nearer my Father's house, ...
One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er;I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before;Nearer my Father's house, ...
As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea,Did the waves from her proud bows foaming whisper ...
The sense of your bidding is unclear:to pray, to curse, is it, to fightyou bid me, inscrutable genius?The spring slackens, ...
LO! in its still, soft-shrouded place,The pathos of a death-pale face!I view the marks of mortal careTime's hopeless sorrows branded ...
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
Opening the mists on a sudden through,An Avenue!Then, all one ferment of varied gold,With foam of plumes where the chamfrom ...
Give me light, God irrefutable, Inexplicable architect of the universe, Creator of fate and recognition, Tempest of breath, central ability, ...
And unto Adam He said…. cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thorns…. shall bring it forth. ...
O swift forerunners, rosy with the race!Spirits of dawn, divinely manifestBehind your blushing banners in the sky,Daring invaders of Night's ...
Because you cannot pluck the flower,You pass the sweet scent by;Because you cannot have the starsYou will not see the ...
I.She sitteth at the Master's feetIn motionless employ;Her ears, her heart, her soul completeDrinks in the tide of joy.Ah! who ...
When Autumn's melancholy robes the land With silence, and sad fadings mystical Of other years move thro' the ...
Good morrow, my lord! in the sky aloneSang the lark as the sun ascended his throne."Shine on me, my lord: ...
Since this is the last night I keep you home,Come, I will consecrate you for the journey.Rather I had you ...
A Phantasy.God took a fit of Paradise-wind, A slip of coerule weather,A thought as simple as Himself, And ravelled them ...
First time he kissed me, he but only kissedThe finger of this hand wherewith I write;And ever since, it grew ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart ! Unlike our uses and our destinies. Our ministering two angels look surprise ...
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies. Our ministering two angels look surprise On ...
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since, ...
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