A Modern Apostle IV (Constance Naden Poems)
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
WHITE, cold, and sacred is my chosen home, A seat for gods, a mount divine; And from the height of ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
OH, listen, for my soul can bear no more; I crave not pardon; that I cannot win: Yet hear me, ...
THERE was a land, where all men lived in dreams, Where heaven was hid by vapours, grey or gold; Yet ...
I WAS a youth of studious mind, Fair Science was my mistress kind, And held me with attraction chemic; No ...
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
FAREWELL oh mocking Wind! No more I mix Thine airy substance with my world, the Tree: Farewell, oh Carbon, that ...
HATH Wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise, And sing for joy. The blind man, gaining sight, Says haply, ...
BEFORE the noblest from his genius wrought The sculptor stood: with awe, but not with pride, He saw the image ...
ONLY a woman's letter, brown with age, Yet breathing deathless love, too strong and deep E'er to be told, save ...
Translated From The German of R?ckert.I STOOD upon the mountain Before the sun had set, And saw how o'er the ...
NIGHT.I LIFT to Heaven my longing eyes, Knowing that yonder tranquil moon Is bright for you in Spanish skies; And ...
THE silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves, Flooded by morn with golden light, rejoices, And mingles with the kindred merriment ...
THEY told me she was still the same, In form, and mind, and heart; With freshly-dawning joy I came, And ...
CLEAR, golden, soft, the spring-tide sunshine beams, With tranquil splendour piercing grove and dingle, As though bright morning, noon, and ...
SWEET household hyacinth, whose dainty breath Steals through my spirit like an April dream! Each day I watch another snowy ...
FAIR, sunny-hearted child of many tears! Thou, while thy mother Earth forsaken slept, Didst gather to thyself pure hopes, that ...
TO still September comes a dream of joy: The breath of dying roses in the calm And sultry air, seems ...
COME in my dreams, belov?d! though thou seem Less kind, less noble, than by truthful day; Even in sleep my ...
OH Thou, who art the life of heaven and earth, Eternal Substance of all things that seem; Or but the ...
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