Tekel (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East, Then from the splendour and the shame of ...
Edith Nesbit Poems on Dreams (50 Poems)
After Sixty Years (Edith Nesbit Poems)
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
Two Christmas Eves (Edith Nesbit Poems)
ITHE white snow veils the earth's brown face, Strong frost has bound the veil in place-- Under the wide, clear, ...
Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
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 ...
Two Voices (Edith Nesbit Poems)
COUNTRY'SWEET are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover, With tall field-sorrel, and ...
The Three Kings (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN the star in the East was lit to shineThe three kings journeyed to Palestine;They came from the uttermost parts ...
From The Portuguese (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IWhen I lived in the village of youthThere were lilies in all the orchards,Flowers in the orange-gardensFor brides to wear ...
August (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LEAVE me alone, for August's sleepy charm Is on me, and I will not break the spell; My ...
The Will To Live (Edith Nesbit Poems)
SINCE Faith is a veil that has nothing behind it,And Hope wanders lost where no mortal can find it,Since Love ...
To A Child (Edith Nesbit Poems)
(Rosamund.)The fairies have been busy while you slept;They have been laughing where the sad rain wept,They have taught Beauty to ...
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, ...
Christmas (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WITH garlands to grace it, with laughter to greet it, Christmas is here, holly-red and snow-white, Hung round ...
The Ferry (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DRAW close the curtains, and shut out The spring's green glow and glitter; The ...
A Star In The East (Edith Nesbit Poems)
FOR THE ART EXHIBITION AT ST. JUDE'S, WHITECHAPELLIKE a fair flower springing fresh, sweet, and bright, Through prison ...
Flower Of Aloe (Edith Nesbit Poems)
HOW can I tell you how I love you, dear? There is no music now the world is ...
Hopes (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A PRINCESS, sleeping in enchanted bowers, Earth springs to waking at Spring's voice and kiss, And after winter's ...
The Promise Of Spring (Edith Nesbit Poems)
JUST a whisper, half-heard, But our heart knows the word; Caresses that seem Like love's lips in a dream; ...
Discretion (Edith Nesbit Poems)
AH, turn your pretty eyes away! You would not have me love again? Love's pleasure does not live ...
Faute De Mieux (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN the corn is green and the poppies red And the fields are crimson with love-lies-bleeding, When the ...
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 ...
To A Tulip-Bulb (Edith Nesbit Poems)
SLEEP first, And let the storm and winter do their worst; Let all the garden lie ...
Cul-De-Sac (Edith Nesbit Poems)
COULD I hope that when the brain, Tired of questions answerless, Shall slip off the bonds of pain ...
The Crown Of Life (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE days, the doubts, the dreams of pain Are over, not to come again, And from the menace of the ...
The Monk (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, The long day's penance done at last, I see the ghosts ...
The Heart Of Sadness (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IT is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But ...
The Touchstone (Edith Nesbit Poems)
There was a garden, very strange and fairWith all the roses summer never brings.The snowy blossom of immortal SpringsLighted its ...
Death (Edith Nesbit Poems)
NEVER again:No child shall stir the inmost heart of herAnd teach her heaven by that first faint stir;No little lips ...
Gretna Green (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Last night when I kissed you,My soul caught alight;And oh! how I missed youThe rest of the night -Till Love ...
Waterloo Day (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS is the day of our glory; this is our day to weep. Under her dusty laurels England stirs in ...