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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
OH, listen, for my soul can bear no more; I crave not pardon; that I cannot win: Yet hear me, ...
Translated From The German of Schiller.AH faithless! canst thou thus desert me, With all fair thoughts and fancies gay, With ...
THERE was a land, where all men lived in dreams, Where heaven was hid by vapours, grey or gold; Yet ...
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
IN lonely toil my manhood has been spent, Spurning all ties of home, all joyance free; And now my heart ...
DESPAIRING and alone, Where mountain winds make moan, My days are spent: Each sacred wood and cave Is a forgotten ...
OH, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! To taste your richness, we have given youth, Unshadowed mirth, and calm ...
I LIVE with love encompassed round, And glowing light that is not mine, And yet am sad; for, truth to ...
WHEN some sweet voice flows forth in foreign speech, The soul shines through the words, and makes them clear, And ...
LIGHT glorious and eternal, that reveals All earthly things, itself is secret still; Love, silent king of heart, and mind, ...
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 ...
HAVE pity, Lord! Let me not die alone! Though once I dared my fellow-souls to shrive, I am unclean; with ...
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