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 ...
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time. The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes These lads ...
THE thin white snow-streaks pencilling That mountain's shoulder gray, While in the west the pale green sky Smiled back the ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we ...
AH me, how heavily the night comes down, Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue hills' serried throng, The ...
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you ...
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, Marking the slow ...
SURELY, dame Nature made you in some dream Of old-world women--Chriemhild, or bright Aslauga, or Boadicea fierce and fair, Or ...
IN his wide fields walks the Master, In his fair fields, ripe for harvest, Where the evening sun shines slant-wise ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
February 25th, 1851.YOU are to be married, Mary; This hour as I wakeful lie In the dreamy dawn of the ...
IN the June twilight, in the soft gray twilight, The yellow sun-glow trembling through the rainy eve, As my love ...
METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foregone, Weaving ...
THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit With this book upon my lap here, ...
Emelie, that fayrer was to seeneThan is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.DOST thou thus ...
LABORARE est orare: We, black-visaged sons of toil, From the coal-mine and the anvil And the delving of the soil,-- ...
MY Christian name, my Christian name, I never hear it now: None have the right to utter it, 'T is ...
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:Love given willingly, full and ...
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 ...
After War-time.O LIFE, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching This poor damp brow, or flying freshly by On wings of ...
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 ...
C. N.--Died April, 1857.What spirit is it that doth pervade The silence of this empty room? And as I lift ...
I TOOK the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely finished their wee hall, That, ...
PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe. The Lord who ...
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