The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East, Then from the splendour and the shame of ...
ITHE white snow veils the earth's brown face, Strong frost has bound the veil in place-- Under the wide, clear, ...
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
Work while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.IN the childhood of April, while purple woods ...
COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ...
TO THE QUEENLADY and Queen, for whom our laurels twine, Upon whose head the glories of our land ...
COUNTRY'SWEET are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover, With tall field-sorrel, and ...
WHEN the star in the East was lit to shineThe three kings journeyed to Palestine;They came from the uttermost parts ...
_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899.THERE was a day,A horrible Autumn day,When from her home, the home she made for ...
LIKE an angry sun, like a splendid star, War gleams down the long years' track; They strain at ...
SIR GEOFFREY met the white lady Upon his marriage morn, Her eyes were blue as cornflowers are, ...
22nd January, 1901.THE Queen is dead. God save the King,In this his hour of grief,When sorrow gathers memories in a ...
The grass was gray with the moonlit dew,The stones were white as I came through;I came down the path by ...
In answer to those who have said that English Poetsgive no personal love to their country.ENGLAND, my country, austere in ...
(Rosamund.)The fairies have been busy while you slept;They have been laughing where the sad rain wept,They have taught Beauty to ...
Mary of Magdala came to bed;There were no soft curtains round her head;She had no mother to hold of worthThe ...
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
IF we must part, this parting is the best:How would you bear to layYour head on some warm pillow far ...
UNBIND thine eyes, with thine own soul confer, Look on the sins that made thy life unclean, Behold ...
FLY, fly, my pretty pigeon, fly! And see if you can find him; He has blue eyes--you'll know ...
NOW veiled in the inviolable past Love lies asleep, who never more will wake; Nor would ...
WHEN all the weary flowers, Worn out with sunlit hours, Droop o'er the garden beds ...
MADAM, you bade me act a part, A comedy of your devising-- Forbade me to consult my heart, ...
NEVER again:No child shall stir the inmost heart of herAnd teach her heaven by that first faint stir;No little lips ...
Last night when I kissed you,My soul caught alight;And oh! how I missed youThe rest of the night -Till Love ...
THROUGH the long night, the deathlong night, Along the dark and haunted way, I knew your hidden face ...
MAKE strong your door with bolt and bar, Make every window fast; Strong brass and iron as they ...
What of the garden I gave?God said to me;"Hast thou been diligent to foster and saveThe life of flower and ...
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