Memory (Constance Naden Poems)
PRECIOUS glimpses through the future's curtain He may catch, who sees the past unveiled; Else, in seeking for a goal ...
Constance Naden Poems (118 Poems)
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 ...
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, ...
Maiden Meditation (Constance Naden Poems)
I'LL don my kerchief blue, she said, "And wear my Sunday gown, For every morn, with lightsome tread A youth ...
The Abbot (Constance Naden Poems)
SLOWLY, with dream-like sadness, tolled The monastery bell; The Abbot of those cloisters old Lay dead within his cell. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Last Druid (Constance Naden Poems)
DESPAIRING and alone, Where mountain winds make moan, My days are spent: Each sacred wood and cave Is a forgotten ...
Books (Constance Naden Poems)
OH, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! To taste your richness, we have given youth, Unshadowed mirth, and calm ...
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 ...
Light At Eventide (Constance Naden Poems)
EVIL has brought forth good, but good in turn Brings evil forth, and painfully we learn The rich resulting harmony ...
Natural Selection (Constance Naden Poems)
I HAD found out a gift for my fair, I had found where the cave-men were laid; Skull, femur, and ...
The Two Artists (Constance Naden Poems)
EDITH is fair, the painter said, "Her cheek so richly glows, My palette ne'er could match the red Of that ...
Friendship (Constance Naden Poems)
THE human soul that crieth at thy gates, Of man or woman, alien or akin, 'Tis thine own Self that ...
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 ...
Farewell (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Emmanuel Geibel.ONE goblet more I drink to thee, Thou fair and foreign strand; No sadder ...
An Evening Song (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of R?ckert.I STOOD upon the mountain Before the sun had set, And saw how o'er the ...
January 28th, 1880 (Constance Naden Poems)
NO more I long for April's fitful sheen, For little fluttering lives, that passed in June, For leaves and flowers, ...
Comfort In Tears (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Goethe.WHY art thou sad, when all around So gay and bright appears? For plainly in ...
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 ...
The Well (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Paul Heyse.YES, wayward girl, be cold and shy, From morn till eve lock up thy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Love’s Mirror (Constance Naden Poems)
I LIVE with love encompassed round, And glowing light that is not mine, And yet am sad; for, truth to ...
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 ...
On The Water (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Emmanuel Geibel.NOW hill and dale begin to bloom anew, The tree-tops bud, and winds pass ...
Spring (Constance Naden Poems)
Translated From The German of Ernst Schulze.OH come, sweet Spring, thy budding flowers unfold; Within the woods awake the song-bird's ...
On The Malvern Hills (Constance Naden Poems)
IN pleasant shade I walk, while sunshine lies On many a distant slope, And far above me, gold-green summits rise, ...