A Modern Apostle V (Constance Naden Poems)
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."KNIGHT, with sister's love for brother, Dear to me thou art: Take this love, and ...
SOFT blows the breeze, the sun shines bright, The birds sing loud and gay; But from the castle on the ...
BRING snow-white lilies, pallid heart-flushed roses, Enwreath her brow with heavy-scented flowers; In soft undreaming sleep her head reposes, While, ...
SILENCE is mine, and everlasting peace; My heart is empty, waiting for its Lord; All hope, all passion, all desire ...
TO-DAY I've discovered a treasure Tied up with a ribbon of blue; That record of pain and of pleasure, A ...
To her Grandfather on his Birthday.OH sweet is light that dawns from gloom, And hope that springs from grief; Soon ...
HATH Wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise, And sing for joy. The blind man, gaining sight, Says haply, ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."TAKE ye the world," cried Zeus from Heaven's height, "Ye sons of men! I give ...
THEY told me she was still the same, In form, and mind, and heart; With freshly-dawning joy I came, And ...
I LIVE with love encompassed round, And glowing light that is not mine, And yet am sad; for, truth to ...
WHEN of some lovely landscape unforgot A shadowy sketch I see, my thought divines Clear sunshine gleaming through the pencilled ...
THE copyist group was gathered round A time-worn fresco, world-renowned, Whose central glory once had been The face of Christ, ...
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