A Promise (Ada Cambridge Poems)
1.Should'st thou, in grip of dread disease,Foresee the day when thou must die,With no more hope of life or ease,But ...
Ada Cambridge Poems on Life (33 Poems)
An Old Maid’s Lament (Ada Cambridge Poems)
1.Every wild she- bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,But a captive woman, made for love - ...
A Lesson (Ada Cambridge Poems)
1.I know now why the world was sad,With so much good to make it glad;Why all things loveliest and bestHave ...
The Legend Of Lady Gertrude (Ada Cambridge Poems)
I.Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds Drank in the dawn of Gertrude's natal day. The dungeon roof an ...
The Kind Word (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Speak kindly, wife; the little ones will grow Fairest and straightest in the warmest sun. We talk so often ...
The Hand In The Dark (Ada Cambridge Poems)
How calm the spangled city spread below! How cool the night! How fair the starry skies! How sweet the dewy ...
The Night (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Watchman, what of the night? See you a streak of light? Whither, O Captain of the quest, ...
Mates (Ada Cambridge Poems)
It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, ...
On Australian Hills (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Earth, outward tuning on her path in space This pensive southern face, Swathing its smile and shine In ...
By The Camp Fire (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide; The purple hill-tops, one by one, ...
The Baptistry (Ada Cambridge Poems)
One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature's rest, As she lay sleeping, ...
The Vain Question (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Why should we court the storms that rave and rend, Safe at our household hearth? Why, starved and naked, ...
This Enlightened Age (Ada Cambridge Poems)
A Meditation in the British Museum.I say it to myself—in meekest awe Of Progress, electricity and steam, Of this ...
The Resting-Plac (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Because I live, ye shall live also.Calmly the Paschal moonlight now is sleeping On mossy hillock and on headstone ...
In Memoriam (Ada Cambridge Poems)
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever. Life—length of days—the ...
The Crown Of Thorns (Ada Cambridge Poems)
And unto Adam He said…. cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thorns…. shall bring it forth. ...
Granny (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent— ...
The Season (Ada Cambridge Poems)
And must I wear a silken life, Hemmed in by city walls? And must I give my garden up ...
Empty (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Can this be my poem?—this poor fragment Of bald thought in meanest language dressed! Can this string of rhymes ...
Mirage (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Is it a will-o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking, That our horizon wears so strange a hue? Is it but ...
Sic Vos Non Vobis (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Ye, that the untrod paths have braved, With heart and brain unbound; Who ask not that your souls be ...
Dawnlight On The Sea (Ada Cambridge Poems)
When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking; Sleep fetters still the brown wings of the lark; The ...
The Candle Of The Lord (Ada Cambridge Poems)
The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our ...
Recollection (Ada Cambridge Poems)
A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping A silken mantle o'er its jagged sides; And silvery, seething waters softly ...
Evensong (Ada Cambridge Poems)
The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light O Lord, to ...
Home-Sick (Ada Cambridge Poems)
O time, great Healer! canst thou still The crying hearts that feel the knife? O great Restorer, canst thou ...
Learn (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Learn, learn, learn,— Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep; Not just a place wherein to laugh and ...
The Silence In The Church (Ada Cambridge Poems)
(No. 1.)O Holy Spirit, we entreat, Send down Thy quickening fire; Let Thine own presence, dread and sweet, ...
To-morrow (Ada Cambridge Poems)
The lighthouse shines across the sea; The homing fieldfares sing for glee: "Behold the shore!" Alas for shattered wing ...
Outcast (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Perchance for dear Life's sake—and life is sweet— When work had failed and roads were deep in snow, And this ...