Our Father’s Business: (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
I.THE NOVICE.IT is near morning. Ere the next night fall I shall be made the bride of heaven. Then home ...
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 ...
AH me, how heavily the night comes down, Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue hills' serried throng, The ...
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 ...
O LIVE! (Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,-- Each held by such slight links, so oft removed ...
AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we ...
Parting for Australia.HERE sitting by the fire I aspire, love, I aspire-- Not to that "other world" of your fond ...
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, Marking the slow ...
IT dressed itself in green leaves all the summer long, Was full of chattering starlings, loud with throstles' song. Children ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud Of butterflies careering in the air-- A many-figured arras stirred to life, And merry unto ...
A FRIEND stands at the door; In either tight-closed hand Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three score: Waiting to ...
THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit With this book upon my lap here, ...
O SOLITARY shining sea That ripples in the sun, O gray and melancholy sea, O'er which the shadows run; O ...
A Cynic's Song.SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold, Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame; I ...
I.UNTIL her death!" the words read strange yet real, Like things afar off suddenly brought near:-- Will it be slow ...
TWO PORTRAITS.A PLEASANT picture, full of meanings deep, Old age, calm sitting in the July sun, On withered hands half-leaning--feeble ...
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:Love given willingly, full and ...
ALICE, Alice, little Alice, My new-christened baby Alice, Can there ever rhymes be found To express my wishes for thee ...
I.I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I: No other can, nor need. They have no form, I ...
After War-time.O LIFE, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching This poor damp brow, or flying freshly by On wings of ...
AH, little Grace of the golden locks, The hills rise fair on the shores of Clyde. As the merry waves ...
O THE long northern twilight between the day and the night, When the heat and the weariness of the world ...
O SILENT my sister, who stands by my side at the shore, Back gazing with me on those waves which ...
SENT IN A LITTLE BOX.LET them lie, yes, let them lie, They'll be dead to-morrow: Lift the lid up quietly ...
THE tide has ebbed away: No more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant rocks, Nor swayings amidst sea-weed false that mocks ...
And we shall be changed."And we shall be changed. Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey, Pressed each to ...
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