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 World (22 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Lament Of The Cork-Cell (Constance Naden Poems)
FAREWELL oh mocking Wind! No more I mix Thine airy substance with my world, the Tree: Farewell, oh Carbon, that ...
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 Sharing Of Earth (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Schiller."TAKE ye the world," cried Zeus from Heaven's height, "Ye sons of men! I give ...
Moonlight And Gas (Constance Naden Poems)
THE poet in theory worships the moon, But how can he linger, to gaze on her light? With proof-sheets 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 ...
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 ...
The Fir-Tree (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Luise von Ploennies.HIGH on that hill thou seest A single fir-tree stand; I sit there ...
Illusions (Constance Naden Poems)
NOT in the heavens alone is Truth renowned; Sad human hearts, that seem to love her less, Even in mutiny ...
The Eye (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Emil Rittershaus.THE human soul--a world in little; The world--a greater human soul; The eye of ...
The Better World (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Hieronymus Lorm.WHO lives by thought or by belief Finds in the World a home of ...