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 ...
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
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 ...
THEY'VE left me alone in the garden, So I'll talk to that dear little wren-- Mr. Beetle! I do beg ...
WHITE, cold, and sacred is my chosen home, A seat for gods, a mount divine; And from the height of ...
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 ...
To her Grandfather on his Birthday.OH sweet is light that dawns from gloom, And hope that springs from grief; Soon ...
PRECIOUS glimpses through the future's curtain He may catch, who sees the past unveiled; Else, in seeking for a goal ...
HATH Wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise, And sing for joy. The blind man, gaining sight, Says haply, ...
DESPAIRING and alone, Where mountain winds make moan, My days are spent: Each sacred wood and cave Is a forgotten ...
ONLY a woman's letter, brown with age, Yet breathing deathless love, too strong and deep E'er to be told, save ...
EDITH is fair, the painter said, "Her cheek so richly glows, My palette ne'er could match the red Of that ...
THE poet in theory worships the moon, But how can he linger, to gaze on her light? With proof-sheets and ...
Translated From The German of Goethe.WHY art thou sad, when all around So gay and bright appears? For plainly in ...
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 ...
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 ...
FULL oft through some enchanted land I tread, Wherein can live no hatred, pain, or fear, Where all the heavens ...
THE blackbird sits and pipes his love-notes clear In yon dark tracery of budding sprays, Sharply defined against the distant ...
THERE is a time, when all the heart is dumb, Too tired for dread of ill, or hope of good; ...
COME, tender sunlight of the spring, and shine Through all my thoughts; my inmost being fill, Teaching my heart to ...
NOT in the heavens alone is Truth renowned; Sad human hearts, that seem to love her less, Even in mutiny ...
MY sweet sun-tinted roses, faint and fair As morning twilight! though ye soon must fade, Still shall ye bloom for ...
OH Thou, who art the life of heaven and earth, Eternal Substance of all things that seem; Or but the ...
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