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 ...
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 ...
THE thin white snow-streaks pencilling That mountain's shoulder gray, While in the west the pale green sky Smiled back the ...
The Temple in DarknessDarkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, ...
AH me, how heavily the night comes down, Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue hills' serried throng, The ...
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 ...
IT dressed itself in green leaves all the summer long, Was full of chattering starlings, loud with throstles' song. Children ...
REST--rest--four little letters, one short word, Enfolding an infinitude of bliss-- Rest is upon the earth. The heavy clouds Hang ...
MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own, And a musical tongue has he; We sit and look in ...
METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foregone, Weaving ...
I.I NEVER lay me down to sleep at night But in my heart I sing that little song: The angels ...
O THE long northern twilight between the day and the night, When the heat and the weariness of the world ...
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 ...
THEY have toiled all the night, the long weary night, They have toiled all the night, Lord, and taken nothing:-- ...
O LIVING, living water, So busy and so bright, Aye flashing in the morning beams, And sounding through the night; ...
A LITTLE bird flew my window by, 'Twixt the level street and the level sky, The level rows of houses ...
LOUD-VOICED night, with the wild wind blowing Many a tune; Stormy night, with white rain-clouds going Over the moon; Mystic ...
ALL shimmering in the morning shine And diamonded with dew, And quivering in the scented wind That thrills its green ...
TUNE--"God rest ye, merry gentleman."GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born ...
GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain, Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, In the long patience of ...
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