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 ...
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
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 ...
THE monastery towers, as pure and fairAs virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;The walls, to guard the hidden ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ...
_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899.THERE was a day,A horrible Autumn day,When from her home, the home she made for ...
22nd January, 1901.THE Queen is dead. God save the King,In this his hour of grief,When sorrow gathers memories in a ...
IWhen I lived in the village of youthThere were lilies in all the orchards,Flowers in the orange-gardensFor brides to wear ...
In answer to those who have said that English Poetsgive no personal love to their country.ENGLAND, my country, austere in ...
SINCE Faith is a veil that has nothing behind it,And Hope wanders lost where no mortal can find it,Since Love ...
KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers, Hear how we cry to you, brothers of ours!-- Brothers in nature, pulse, ...
We do not clamour for vengeance,We do not whine for fear;We have cried in the outer darknessWhere was no man ...
This was my little sonWho leapt and laughed on my knee:Body we made with love,Soul made with love by Thee.This ...
Mary of Magdala came to bed;There were no soft curtains round her head;She had no mother to hold of worthThe ...
NOW that I've nearly done my days,And grown too stiff to sweep or sew,I sit and think, till I'm amaze,About ...
WITH garlands to grace it, with laughter to greet it, Christmas is here, holly-red and snow-white, Hung round ...
THE house sleeps dark and the moon wakes white, The fields are alight with dew; "Oh, will you ...
WHEN I am busying about,Sewing on buttons, tapes, and strings,Hanging the week's wet washing outOr ironing the children's things,Sweeping and ...
MY beautiful beech, your smooth grey coat is trimmedWith letters. Once, each stood for all things dearTo foolish lovers, dead ...
AND you could leave me now--After the first remembered whispered vowWhich sings for ever and ever in my ears--The vow ...
HOW can I tell you how I love you, dear? There is no music now the world is ...
IF we must part, this parting is the best:How would you bear to layYour head on some warm pillow far ...
THIS is Christ's birthday: long ago He lay upon His Mother's knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft ...
I HAVEN'T always acted good:I've taken things not meant for me;Not other people's drink and food,But things they never seemed ...
GIVE me thy dreams, she said, and I With empty hands and very poor, Watched my fair flowery ...
THE days, the doubts, the dreams of pain Are over, not to come again, And from the menace of the ...
WHEN I was young how fair the skies,Such folly of cloud, such blue depths wise,Such dews of morn, such calms ...
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