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 ...
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
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 ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
SOFT blows the breeze, the sun shines bright, The birds sing loud and gay; But from the castle on the ...
IN lonely toil my manhood has been spent, Spurning all ties of home, all joyance free; And now my heart ...
ONLY a woman's letter, brown with age, Yet breathing deathless love, too strong and deep E'er to be told, save ...
Translated From The German of R?ckert.I STOOD upon the mountain Before the sun had set, And saw how o'er the ...
IN pleasant shade I walk, while sunshine lies On many a distant slope, And far above me, gold-green summits rise, ...
THROUGH dreamful meads, that still his spirit keep, Roamed the boy-poet, when the morn was young, And listened while the ...
COME in my dreams, belov?d! though thou seem Less kind, less noble, than by truthful day; Even in sleep my ...
TELL me no more, I must not fear to die; Ye waste your words; not death, but life I dread: ...
I MURMUR songs of past delight, To tunes of present pain: Around me is the empty night That answers not ...
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