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 ...
Constance Naden Poems on Mind (35 Poems)
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 ...
A Modern Apostle III (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
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 ...
Resipiscentia (Constance Naden Poems)
Ye must be born again. FIRST VOICE.GOOD morrow, comrade! Whence that look elate? Where are thy sins and fears, a ...
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, ...
The Pilgrim (Constance Naden Poems)
THERE was a land, where all men lived in dreams, Where heaven was hid by vapours, grey or gold; Yet ...
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 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, ...
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 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 Alchemist (Constance Naden Poems)
IN lonely toil my manhood has been spent, Spurning all ties of home, all joyance free; And now my heart ...
The Sculptor (Constance Naden Poems)
BEFORE the noblest from his genius wrought The sculptor stood: with awe, but not with pride, He saw the image ...
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 ...
Friendship (Constance Naden Poems)
THE human soul that crieth at thy gates, Of man or woman, alien or akin, 'Tis thine own Self that ...
Night And Morning (Constance Naden Poems)
NIGHT.I LIFT to Heaven my longing eyes, Knowing that yonder tranquil moon Is bright for you in Spanish skies; And ...
Springtide (Constance Naden Poems)
THE silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves, Flooded by morn with golden light, rejoices, And mingles with the kindred merriment ...
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 ...
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 ...
In The Lanes Between Stratford And Shottery, May 14th, 1880 (Constance Naden Poems)
THROUGH dreamful meads, that still his spirit keep, Roamed the boy-poet, when the morn was young, And listened while the ...
April, 1879 (Constance Naden Poems)
CLEAR, golden, soft, the spring-tide sunshine beams, With tranquil splendour piercing grove and dingle, As though bright morning, noon, and ...
October, 1879 (Constance Naden Poems)
THROUGH all the dolorous year mine eyes have sought The ever-living loveliness that cleaves Even to dim grey skies and ...
Sunshine (Constance Naden Poems)
COME, tender sunlight of the spring, and shine Through all my thoughts; my inmost being fill, Teaching my heart to ...
Heloise I – Bride (Constance Naden Poems)
COME in my dreams, belov?d! though thou seem Less kind, less noble, than by truthful day; Even in sleep my ...
The Agnostic’s Psalm (Constance Naden Poems)
OH Thou, who art the life of heaven and earth, Eternal Substance of all things that seem; Or but the ...
Science And Philosophy (Constance Naden Poems)
WE went a-begging for a nobler creed, We craved the living bread and wine of thought, That Eucharist which is ...
The Mystery Of Light (Constance Naden Poems)
LIGHT glorious and eternal, that reveals All earthly things, itself is secret still; Love, silent king of heart, and mind, ...