Benedetta Minelli (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
I.THE NOVICE.IT is near morning. Ere the next night fall I shall be made the bride of heaven. Then home ...
I.THE NOVICE.IT is near morning. Ere the next night fall I shall be made the bride of heaven. Then home ...
IT is a moor Barren and treeless; lying high and bare Beneath the arch?d sky. The rushing winds Fly over ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
The Temple in DarknessDarkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, ...
I.THE great human whirlpool--'t is seething and seething: On! No time for shrieking out--scarcely for breathing: All toiling and moiling, ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you ...
IN his wide fields walks the Master, In his fair fields, ripe for harvest, Where the evening sun shines slant-wise ...
REST--rest--four little letters, one short word, Enfolding an infinitude of bliss-- Rest is upon the earth. The heavy clouds Hang ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud Of butterflies careering in the air-- A many-figured arras stirred to life, And merry unto ...
IN the June twilight, in the soft gray twilight, The yellow sun-glow trembling through the rainy eve, As my love ...
THE good ship lies in the crowded dock, Fair as a statue, firm as a rock: Her tall masts piercing ...
THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; ...
I.I NEVER lay me down to sleep at night But in my heart I sing that little song: The angels ...
A Statuette.I.MY white archangel, with thy steadfast eyes Beholding all this empty ghost-filled room, Thy clasped hands resting on the ...
O DEAREST my sister, my sister who sits by the hearth, With lids softly drooping, or lifted up saintly and ...
FAREWELL. In dimmer distance I watch your figures glide, Across the sunny moorland, The brown hillside; Each momently up rising ...
TAKE it, reader, idly passing, This, like other idle lines; Take it, critic, great at classing Subtle genius and its ...
I.I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I: No other can, nor need. They have no form, I ...
LOUD wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials ...
O the green things growing, the green things growing,The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!I should like to ...
A CHILD'S smile--nothing more; Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen; Like summer lightning o'er, Leaving the little face ...
IF, in the silence of this lonely eve, With the street lamp pale flickering on the wall, An angel were ...
Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,In the old likeness that I knew,I would be so faithful, so loving, ...
COULD ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas, In the old likeness that I knew, I would be so faithful, ...
REGARD me well: I am thy love, thy love; Thy blessing, thy delight, thy hope, thy peace: Thy joy above ...
LONG years ago she visited my chamber, Steps soft and slow, a taper in her hand; Her fond kiss she ...
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