Only a Woman (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time. The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes These lads ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
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, ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
Returned from the Dead-Letter OfficeTHANK you for your kindness, Lady fair and wise, Though love's famed for blindness, Lovers--hem! for ...
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 ...
PLANT it safe and sure, my child, Then cease watching and cease weeping; You have done your utmost part: Leave ...
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, Marking the slow ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
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, ...
YE are twa laddies unco gleg, An' blithe an' bonnie: As licht o' heel as Anster's Meg;-- Gin ye'd a ...
A Cynic's Song.SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold, Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame; I ...
LABORARE est orare: We, black-visaged sons of toil, From the coal-mine and the anvil And the delving of the soil,-- ...
You "never loved me," Ada. These slow words Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue Out of your true and kindly ...
I.RICHARD the Lion-hearted, crowned serene With the true royalty of perfect man; Seated in stone above the praise or ban ...
TAKE it, reader, idly passing, This, like other idle lines; Take it, critic, great at classing Subtle genius and its ...
WERE I a boy, with a boy's heart-beat At glimpse of her passing adown the street, Of a room where ...
I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice,While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown,"Your man's a poor man, a cold and ...
PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe. The Lord who ...
HOLY Lord Jesus, Thou wilt search till Thou find This lost piece of silver,--this treasure enshrined In casket or bosom, ...
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