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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ye must be born again. FIRST VOICE.GOOD morrow, comrade! Whence that look elate? Where are thy sins and fears, a ...
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 ...
I WAS a youth of studious mind, Fair Science was my mistress kind, And held me with attraction chemic; No ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."KNIGHT, with sister's love for brother, Dear to me thou art: Take this love, and ...
MY God, who art the God of loneliness, Who, Life of human souls, art yet alone, Who, Lord of joy, ...
WELL have ye spoken, but the words ye said Stir in my constant soul nor love, nor rage; Through you ...
SO, dear Fred, you're not content Though I quote the books you lent, And I've kept that spray you sent ...
SOFT blows the breeze, the sun shines bright, The birds sing loud and gay; But from the castle on the ...
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
BRING snow-white lilies, pallid heart-flushed roses, Enwreath her brow with heavy-scented flowers; In soft undreaming sleep her head reposes, While, ...
Translated From the Italian of Dante ("Purgatorio," Canto VIII., v. 43-84).AGAIN Sordello spoke-- "Into this dell, Among the mighty Dead, ...
WHAT am I? Ah, you know it, I am the modern Sage, Seer, savant, merchant, poet-- I am, in brief, ...
SILENCE is mine, and everlasting peace; My heart is empty, waiting for its Lord; All hope, all passion, all desire ...
TO-DAY I've discovered a treasure Tied up with a ribbon of blue; That record of pain and of pleasure, A ...
SPEAK not of passion, for my heart is tired, I should but grieve thee with unheeding ears; Speak not of ...
FAREWELL oh mocking Wind! No more I mix Thine airy substance with my world, the Tree: Farewell, oh Carbon, that ...
To her Grandfather on his Birthday.OH sweet is light that dawns from gloom, And hope that springs from grief; Soon ...
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