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 ...
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 ...
An Old Man's Confession SHE has a large still heart--this lady of mine, (Not mine, i'faith! nor would I that ...
O LIVE! (Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,-- Each held by such slight links, so oft removed ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we ...
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying Over the sky so blue and cold? Fair faint hopes, why are you ...
OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again, Marking the slow ...
REST--rest--four little letters, one short word, Enfolding an infinitude of bliss-- Rest is upon the earth. The heavy clouds Hang ...
O SWEETEST my sister, my sister that sits in the sun, Her lap full of jewels, and roses in showers ...
THE good ship lies in the crowded dock, Fair as a statue, firm as a rock: Her tall masts piercing ...
THINK you, had we two lost fealty, something would not, as I sit With this book upon my lap here, ...
WAVY and bright in the summer air, Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, And its roughest breath ...
O SOLITARY shining sea That ripples in the sun, O gray and melancholy sea, O'er which the shadows run; O ...
LABORARE est orare: We, black-visaged sons of toil, From the coal-mine and the anvil And the delving of the soil,-- ...
MY Christian name, my Christian name, I never hear it now: None have the right to utter it, 'T is ...
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:Love given willingly, full and ...
SING away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung ...
O THE long northern twilight between the day and the night, When the heat and the weariness of the world ...
YEAR after year the cowslips fill the meadow, Year after year the skylarks thrill the air, Year after year, in ...
I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice,While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown,"Your man's a poor man, a cold and ...
O LIVING, living water, So busy and so bright, Aye flashing in the morning beams, And sounding through the night; ...
An, don't come a-wooing with your long, long face,And your longer purse behind:I'm a bright young girl, and I know ...
WHEN green leaves come again, my love, When green leaves come again,-- Why put on such a cloudy face, When ...
GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain, Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, In the long patience of ...
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