November, 1878 (Constance Naden Poems)
THE sky is dim and silent; lost are mirth, Colour, and motion; e'en the winds are dumb, Save for a ...
THE sky is dim and silent; lost are mirth, Colour, and motion; e'en the winds are dumb, Save for a ...
TO still September comes a dream of joy: The breath of dying roses in the calm And sultry air, seems ...
SWEET is life's crown of quiet; sweet is age, With tranquil days, unmarred by joy or dole, Void of desire, ...
NOT in the heavens alone is Truth renowned; Sad human hearts, that seem to love her less, Even in mutiny ...
THE grey old church is solemn in the sheen Of noonday--half its reverend beauty won From that blind, silent, lifeless ...
COME in my dreams, belov?d! though thou seem Less kind, less noble, than by truthful day; Even in sleep my ...
HAVE pity, Lord! Let me not die alone! Though once I dared my fellow-souls to shrive, I am unclean; with ...
SWEET sounds, and scents, and colours join to woo My musing heart to love and reverence; A tender and a ...
TELL me no more, I must not fear to die; Ye waste your words; not death, but life I dread: ...
THE sun is setting--not in colours gay, But pure as when he blazed with noonday heat; The upland path is ...
I SAW the passions and desires of Man Blent in a thousand-coloured arc of light, A double rainbow; but so ...
FAIR are the bells of this bright-flowering weed; Nectar and pollen treasuries, where grope Innocent thieves; the Poet lets them ...
BEYOND the realm of dull and slumberous Night I long have wandered with unwearied feet; The land where Poetry and ...
OH, sing once more, nor think your subtle spells Are vainly woven for a nature cold, Although I kneel not ...
MAN needs no dread unwonted Avatar The secrets of the heavenly host to show; From waves of light, their lustrous ...
Translated From The German of J. G. Fischer.THOU knowest well, that thou art all I have; Oh, do not turn ...
Translated From The German of Julius Sturm.THE moon is newly risen, I wander through the vale; My dreaming eyes are ...
HAVING known Love, all its unmeasured heights, All its unfathomed depths, I go my way, In full content that these ...
TIME hobbles, but Love flies; One moment, say the wise, They pass together: Not Cupid's curls of gold But Time's ...
THE copyist group was gathered round A time-worn fresco, world-renowned, Whose central glory once had been The face of Christ, ...
Translated From The German of Carl Siebel.BURY the dead thou lovest, Deep, deep within thy heart; So shall they live ...
I MURMUR songs of past delight, To tunes of present pain: Around me is the empty night That answers not ...
Translated From The German of Goethe.THOU, who Heaven's angel art, Thou, who pain and sorrow stillest, And the doubly mournful ...
THINK not I roam afield With heart untrue; The gifts my rambles yield Are all for you. The bird must ...
THE deep enchantment of the summer-tide Lay o'er the earth, and hill and valley dreamed, And all the trees with ...
Translated From The German of Hieronymus Lorm.WHO lives by thought or by belief Finds in the World a home of ...
Translated From The German of Emil Rittershaus.THE human soul--a world in little; The world--a greater human soul; The eye of ...
Translated From The German of Goethe.O'ER every mountain height Slumber broods, Scarcely a zephyr light Stirs in the woods One ...
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