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 ...
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 ...
OH, listen, for my soul can bear no more; I crave not pardon; that I cannot win: Yet hear me, ...
Translated From The German of Schiller.AH faithless! canst thou thus desert me, With all fair thoughts and fancies gay, With ...
I WAS a youth of studious mind, Fair Science was my mistress kind, And held me with attraction chemic; No ...
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 ...
SOFT blows the breeze, the sun shines bright, The birds sing loud and gay; But from the castle on the ...
SILENCE is mine, and everlasting peace; My heart is empty, waiting for its Lord; All hope, all passion, all desire ...
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, ...
I'LL don my kerchief blue, she said, "And wear my Sunday gown, For every morn, with lightsome tread A youth ...
SLOWLY, with dream-like sadness, tolled The monastery bell; The Abbot of those cloisters old Lay dead within his cell. The ...
OH, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! To taste your richness, we have given youth, Unshadowed mirth, and calm ...
EVIL has brought forth good, but good in turn Brings evil forth, and painfully we learn The rich resulting harmony ...
I HAD found out a gift for my fair, I had found where the cave-men were laid; Skull, femur, and ...
EDITH is fair, the painter said, "Her cheek so richly glows, My palette ne'er could match the red Of that ...
Translated From The German of Emmanuel Geibel.ONE goblet more I drink to thee, Thou fair and foreign strand; No sadder ...
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 ...
Translated From The German of Ernst Schulze.OH come, sweet Spring, thy budding flowers unfold; Within the woods awake the song-bird's ...
WHEN of some lovely landscape unforgot A shadowy sketch I see, my thought divines Clear sunshine gleaming through the pencilled ...
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 ...
LIGHT glorious and eternal, that reveals All earthly things, itself is secret still; Love, silent king of heart, and mind, ...
THE sky is dim and silent; lost are mirth, Colour, and motion; e'en the winds are dumb, Save for a ...
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