A Modern Apostle II (Constance Naden Poems)
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
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, ...
THEY'VE left me alone in the garden, So I'll talk to that dear little wren-- Mr. Beetle! I do beg ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
WELL have ye spoken, but the words ye said Stir in my constant soul nor love, nor rage; Through you ...
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
WHEN some sweet voice flows forth in foreign speech, The soul shines through the words, and makes them clear, And ...
COME, tender sunlight of the spring, and shine Through all my thoughts; my inmost being fill, Teaching my heart to ...
WE went a-begging for a nobler creed, We craved the living bread and wine of thought, That Eucharist which is ...
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