The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
Edith Nesbit Poems on Cry (24 Poems)
Tekel (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East, Then from the splendour and the shame of ...
Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
At The Gate (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE monastery towers, as pure and fairAs virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;The walls, to guard the hidden ...
The Singing Of The Magnificat (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
The Dead To The Living (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Work while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.IN the childhood of April, while purple woods ...
A Song Of Parting (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DEDICATIONQUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song The richest crown a poet ever wore, Since ...
The Return (Edith Nesbit Poems)
The grass was gray with the moonlit dew,The stones were white as I came through;I came down the path by ...
Spring Song II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE spring is here, and the long nights grow Less bitterly cold than awhile ago; Our rags serve their purpose ...
August (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LEAVE me alone, for August's sleepy charm Is on me, and I will not break the spell; My ...
The Fire (Edith Nesbit Poems)
I was picking raspberries, my head was in the canes,And he came behind and kissed me, and I smacked him ...
Mary Of Magdala (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Mary of Magdala came to bed;There were no soft curtains round her head;She had no mother to hold of worthThe ...
A Life’s Story (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE morning broke in a pearly haze, Then the east grew duskly red: 'Oh, my only day, oh, ...
A Good-Bye (Edith Nesbit Poems)
FAREWELL! How soon unmeasured distance rolls Its leaden clouds between our parted souls! How little to each other now are ...
Children’s Playground In The City (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS is a place where men laid their dead, Each with his life-tale of good or ill; Here ...
Magnificat (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS is Christ's birthday: long ago He lay upon His Mother's knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft ...
The Gift Of The Gods (Edith Nesbit Poems)
GIVE me thy dreams, she said, and I With empty hands and very poor, Watched my fair flowery ...
The Monk (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, The long day's penance done at last, I see the ghosts ...
New Year Song (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WE climb the hill; the mist conceals That valley where we could not stay; Surely this hill's crest, ...
The Egoists (Edith Nesbit Poems)
TWO strangers, from opposing poles,Meet in the torrid zone of Love:And their desire seems set aboveThe limitation of their souls.This ...
A Parting II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
I WILL not wake you, dear; no tears shall creepTo chill the still bed where you lie asleep;No cry, no ...
La Derniere Robe De Soi (Edith Nesbit Poems)
OH, silken gown, all pink and pretty,Bought, quite a bargain, in the City,Your ill-trained soul full false has played me--No ...
Before Winter (Edith Nesbit Poems)
The wind is crying in the night,Like a lost child;The waves break wonderful and whiteAnd wild.The drenched sea-poppies swoon alongThe ...
In Trouble (Edith Nesbit Poems)
1 It's all for nothing: I've lost im now. 2 I suppose it ad to be: 3 But oh I ...