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 ...
THE thin white snow-streaks pencilling That mountain's shoulder gray, While in the west the pale green sky Smiled back the ...
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, ...
I.THE great human whirlpool--'t is seething and seething: On! No time for shrieking out--scarcely for breathing: All toiling and moiling, ...
Returned from the Dead-Letter OfficeTHANK you for your kindness, Lady fair and wise, Though love's famed for blindness, Lovers--hem! for ...
AH me, how heavily the night comes down, Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue hills' serried throng, The ...
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 ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud Of butterflies careering in the air-- A many-figured arras stirred to life, And merry unto ...
THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit With this book upon my lap here, ...
DEEP set in distant seas it lies; The morning vapors float and fall, The noonday clouds above it rise, Then ...
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:Love given willingly, full and ...
A Statuette.I.MY white archangel, with thy steadfast eyes Beholding all this empty ghost-filled room, Thy clasped hands resting on the ...
SENT IN A LITTLE BOX.LET them lie, yes, let them lie, They'll be dead to-morrow: Lift the lid up quietly ...
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 ...
ALL shimmering in the morning shine And diamonded with dew, And quivering in the scented wind That thrills its green ...
GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain, Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, In the long patience of ...
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