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 ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
WHITE, cold, and sacred is my chosen home, A seat for gods, a mount divine; And from the height of ...
Ye must be born again. FIRST VOICE.GOOD morrow, comrade! Whence that look elate? Where are thy sins and fears, a ...
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 ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
WELL have ye spoken, but the words ye said Stir in my constant soul nor love, nor rage; Through you ...
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 ...
FAREWELL oh mocking Wind! No more I mix Thine airy substance with my world, the Tree: Farewell, oh Carbon, that ...
PRECIOUS glimpses through the future's curtain He may catch, who sees the past unveiled; Else, in seeking for a goal ...
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, ...
BEFORE the noblest from his genius wrought The sculptor stood: with awe, but not with pride, He saw the image ...
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 ...
Translated From The German of Emmanuel Geibel.ONE goblet more I drink to thee, Thou fair and foreign strand; No sadder ...
THE silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves, Flooded by morn with golden light, rejoices, And mingles with the kindred merriment ...
Translated From The German of Paul Heyse.YES, wayward girl, be cold and shy, From morn till eve lock up thy ...
Translated From The German of Schiller.THE oak-wood murmurs, The sky clouds o'er, The maiden paces The grassy shore; The billows ...
Translated From The German of Ernst Schulze.OH come, sweet Spring, thy budding flowers unfold; Within the woods awake the song-bird's ...
THIS is the doom I must henceforth fulfil: To hide my heart through days, and months, and years; To look ...
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 ...
NOW is the Earth at rest from sun and storm; And stripped of all her gems and vestures gay, Gives ...
THE sky is dim and silent; lost are mirth, Colour, and motion; e'en the winds are dumb, Save for a ...
THE grey old church is solemn in the sheen Of noonday--half its reverend beauty won From that blind, silent, lifeless ...
YE little birds, that chant your love so loud, Your careless hearts are not so glad as mine, For he ...
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