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 Love (29 Poems)
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 ...
An Answer (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Thy love I am. Thy wife I cannot be,To wear the yoke of servitude - to takeStrange, unknown fetters that ...
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, ...
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, ...
Aunt Dorothy’s Lecture (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Come, go and practise—get your work— Do something, Nelly, pray. I hate to see you moon about In ...
Lord Nevil’s Advice (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Friend, quoth Lord Nevil, "thou art young To face the world, and thou art blind To subtle ways ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Autumn. (Ada Cambridge Poems)
So still—so still! Only the endless sighing Of sad ?olian harp-notes overhead; Only the soft mass-music for the dying; ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Coo Of The Cushat (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Over the smooth lawns, broider'd with violets, Over the hedges of snow-white thorn, Over the billowy, pink apple-blossoms, ...
Seed-Time And Harvest (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of ...
Holy Communion (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Father, for Jesus' sake, Low at the footstool of Thy throne, I pray That Thou, into Thine arms of love, ...
Looking In The Fire (Ada Cambridge Poems)
The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass. The wind ...
The Old Maid’s Story (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Ay, many and many a year's gone by, Since the dawn of that day in spring, When we met ...
To-morrow (Ada Cambridge Poems)
The lighthouse shines across the sea; The homing fieldfares sing for glee: "Behold the shore!" Alas for shattered wing ...
Awake (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Calm as that moonbeam on the wall, Sleep broods on baby's eyes; Arms, hush'd and still, but pulsing quick, ...
The Dawn (Ada Cambridge Poems)
All the wild waves rock'd in shadow, And the world was dim and grey, Dark and silent, hush'd and ...
Good-bye (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Good-bye! — 'tis like a churchyard bell — good-bye! Poor weeping eyes! Poor head, bowed down with woe! Kiss me ...
A Sigh In The Night (Ada Cambridge Poems)
O sweet darkness, still, and calm, and lonely! Spread thy downy pinions round about. Spare me from thy hidden ...
Despair (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Like melting fog the mirage ...