Moon-Struck (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
IT is a moor Barren and treeless; lying high and bare Beneath the arch?d sky. The rushing winds Fly over ...
IT is a moor Barren and treeless; lying high and bare Beneath the arch?d sky. The rushing winds Fly over ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time. The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes These lads ...
An Old Man's Confession SHE has a large still heart--this lady of mine, (Not mine, i'faith! nor would I that ...
The Temple in DarknessDarkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, ...
LEONORA, Leonora, How the word rolls--Leonora-- Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime-- ...
O COUSIN Robert, far away Among the lands of gold, How many years since we two met?-- You would not ...
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
PLANT it safe and sure, my child, Then cease watching and cease weeping; You have done your utmost part: Leave ...
THEY lie, with upraised hands, and feet Stretched like dead feet that walk no more, And stony masks oft human ...
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
SURELY, dame Nature made you in some dream Of old-world women--Chriemhild, or bright Aslauga, or Boadicea fierce and fair, Or ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own, And a musical tongue has he; We sit and look in ...
February 25th, 1851.YOU are to be married, Mary; This hour as I wakeful lie In the dreamy dawn of the ...
THE good ship lies in the crowded dock, Fair as a statue, firm as a rock: Her tall masts piercing ...
WAVY and bright in the summer air, Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, And its roughest breath ...
Emelie, that fayrer was to seeneThan is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.DOST thou thus ...
THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; ...
DEEP set in distant seas it lies; The morning vapors float and fall, The noonday clouds above it rise, Then ...
Look at me with thy large brown eyes,Philip, my king!Round whom the enshadowing purple liesOf babyhood's royal dignities.Lay on my ...
SING away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung ...
I.I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I: No other can, nor need. They have no form, I ...
A MEDITATION FOR ALL.SO, Christmas is here again!-- While the house sleeps, quiet as death, 'Neath the midnight moon comes ...
I TOOK the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely finished their wee hall, That, ...
And we shall be changed."And we shall be changed. Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey, Pressed each to ...
Down, down like a pale leaf dropping Under an autumn sky, My love dropped into my bosom Quietly, quietly. There ...
At the Midsummer, when the hay was down,Said I mournful - Though my life be in its prime,Bare lie my ...
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