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 ...
Constance Naden Poems on Love (43 Poems)
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 ...
A Modern Apostle VI (Constance Naden Poems)
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
The Story Of Clarice II (Constance Naden Poems)
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
The Story Of Clarice III (Constance Naden Poems)
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
The Astronomer (Constance Naden Poems)
WHITE, cold, and sacred is my chosen home, A seat for gods, a mount divine; And from the height of ...
The Confession (Constance Naden Poems)
OH, listen, for my soul can bear no more; I crave not pardon; that I cannot win: Yet hear me, ...
Ideals (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Schiller.AH faithless! canst thou thus desert me, With all fair thoughts and fancies gay, With ...
Scientific Wooing (Constance Naden Poems)
I WAS a youth of studious mind, Fair Science was my mistress kind, And held me with attraction chemic; No ...
The Lady Doctor (Constance Naden Poems)
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
The Knight Of Toggenburg (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Schiller."KNIGHT, with sister's love for brother, Dear to me thou art: Take this love, and ...
The Mystic’s Prayer (Constance Naden Poems)
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
The Roman Philosopher To The Christian Priests (Constance Naden Poems)
WELL have ye spoken, but the words ye said Stir in my constant soul nor love, nor rage; Through you ...
Love Versus Learning (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
The Pantheist’s Song Of Immortality (Constance Naden Poems)
BRING snow-white lilies, pallid heart-flushed roses, Enwreath her brow with heavy-scented flowers; In soft undreaming sleep her head reposes, While, ...
The Carmelite Nun (Constance Naden Poems)
SILENCE is mine, and everlasting peace; My heart is empty, waiting for its Lord; All hope, all passion, all desire ...
The Sister Of Mercy (Constance Naden Poems)
SPEAK not of passion, for my heart is tired, I should but grieve thee with unheeding ears; Speak not of ...
Memory (Constance Naden Poems)
PRECIOUS glimpses through the future's curtain He may catch, who sees the past unveiled; Else, in seeking for a goal ...
The Alchemist (Constance Naden Poems)
IN lonely toil my manhood has been spent, Spurning all ties of home, all joyance free; And now my heart ...
Light-Born Sorrows (Constance Naden Poems)
HATH Wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise, And sing for joy. The blind man, gaining sight, Says haply, ...
The Abbot (Constance Naden Poems)
SLOWLY, with dream-like sadness, tolled The monastery bell; The Abbot of those cloisters old Lay dead within his cell. The ...
A Letter (Constance Naden Poems)
ONLY a woman's letter, brown with age, Yet breathing deathless love, too strong and deep E'er to be told, save ...
Light At Eventide (Constance Naden Poems)
EVIL has brought forth good, but good in turn Brings evil forth, and painfully we learn The rich resulting harmony ...
The Two Artists (Constance Naden Poems)
EDITH is fair, the painter said, "Her cheek so richly glows, My palette ne'er could match the red Of that ...
Friendship (Constance Naden Poems)
THE human soul that crieth at thy gates, Of man or woman, alien or akin, 'Tis thine own Self that ...
The Maiden’s Lament (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Schiller.THE oak-wood murmurs, The sky clouds o'er, The maiden paces The grassy shore; The billows ...
Changed (Constance Naden Poems)
THEY told me she was still the same, In form, and mind, and heart; With freshly-dawning joy I came, And ...
Love’s Mirror (Constance Naden Poems)
I LIVE with love encompassed round, And glowing light that is not mine, And yet am sad; for, truth to ...
Andrew Marvell’s “Definition Of Love” (Constance Naden Poems)
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten of Despair ...
Spring (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Ernst Schulze.OH come, sweet Spring, thy budding flowers unfold; Within the woods awake the song-bird's ...