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 ...
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 ...
Ye must be born again. FIRST VOICE.GOOD morrow, comrade! Whence that look elate? Where are thy sins and fears, a ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
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 ...
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, ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."TAKE ye the world," cried Zeus from Heaven's height, "Ye sons of men! I give ...
EVIL has brought forth good, but good in turn Brings evil forth, and painfully we learn The rich resulting harmony ...
THE human soul that crieth at thy gates, Of man or woman, alien or akin, 'Tis thine own Self that ...
THESE pangs I bear through lingering centuries For slavish Man, in pity and in scorn; Glad, while by birds of ...
THIS fruitage from the far Hesperides I bring to great Eurystheus, feared and hated, Whom I, his slave, nor hate ...
THE grey old church is solemn in the sheen Of noonday--half its reverend beauty won From that blind, silent, lifeless ...
I SAW the passions and desires of Man Blent in a thousand-coloured arc of light, A double rainbow; but so ...
MAN needs no dread unwonted Avatar The secrets of the heavenly host to show; From waves of light, their lustrous ...
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