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 ...
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 ...
I.THE great human whirlpool--'t is seething and seething: On! No time for shrieking out--scarcely for breathing: All toiling and moiling, ...
O LIVE! (Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,-- Each held by such slight links, so oft removed ...
Returned from the Dead-Letter OfficeTHANK you for your kindness, Lady fair and wise, Though love's famed for blindness, Lovers--hem! for ...
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 ...
O SUDDEN blast, that through this silence black Sweeps past my windows, Coming and going with invisible track As death ...
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 ...
Parting for Australia.HERE sitting by the fire I aspire, love, I aspire-- Not to that "other world" of your fond ...
SMALL wren, mute pecking at the last red plum Or twittering idly at the yellowing boughs Fruit-emptied, over thy forsaken ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
February 25th, 1851.YOU are to be married, Mary; This hour as I wakeful lie In the dreamy dawn of the ...
METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foregone, Weaving ...
A FRIEND stands at the door; In either tight-closed hand Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three score: Waiting to ...
THE good ship lies in the crowded dock, Fair as a statue, firm as a rock: Her tall masts piercing ...
WE clutch our joys as children do their flowers; We look at them, but scarce believe them ours, Till our ...
O SOLITARY shining sea That ripples in the sun, O gray and melancholy sea, O'er which the shadows run; O ...
Emelie, that fayrer was to seeneThan is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.DOST thou thus ...
A Cynic's Song.SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold, Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame; I ...
THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; ...
You "never loved me," Ada. These slow words Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue Out of your true and kindly ...
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:Love given willingly, full and ...
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 ...
Look at me with thy large brown eyes,Philip, my king!Round whom the enshadowing purple liesOf babyhood's royal dignities.Lay on my ...
TAKE it, reader, idly passing, This, like other idle lines; Take it, critic, great at classing Subtle genius and its ...
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