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 Hair (25 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 ...
Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
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 ...
The Ballad Of The White Lady (Edith Nesbit Poems)
SIR GEOFFREY met the white lady Upon his marriage morn, Her eyes were blue as cornflowers are, ...
Inasmuch As Ye Did It Not . . . (Edith Nesbit Poems)
If Jesus came to London,Came to London to-day,He would not go to the West End,He would come down our way;He'd ...
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 ...
The Sphinx (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS mystery of golden hair, Of eyes and lips and bosom fair, Is not--if one could really see-- Mere flesh ...
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 ...
The Last Envoy (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS wind, that through the silent woodland blows, O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes Straight to the ...
A Brown Study (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LET them sing of their primrose and cowslip, Their daffodil-gold-coloured hair, Their bluebells, blue eyes, and white violets, ...
Medway Song (Edith Nesbit Poems)
(Air: Carnaval de Venise)LET Housman sing of Severn shore, Of Thames let Arnold sing, But we will sing ...
After Death (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IF we must part, this parting is the best:How would you bear to layYour head on some warm pillow far ...
Pessimism (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IWHILE baby Spring sticks daisies in her hair, Or Summer laughs with flushed triumphant face We ...
Special Pleading (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE world's a path all fresh and sweet, A sky all fresh and fair, With daisies underneath your ...
At The Sound Of The Drum (Edith Nesbit Poems)
ARE you going for a soldier with your curly yellow hair, And a scarlet coat instead of the smock you ...
A Garden Of Girls (Edith Nesbit Poems)
KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose, Jane is like a gillyflower smart; But ...
The Forest Pool (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LEAN down and see your little face Reflected in the forest pool, Tall foxgloves grow about the place, ...
The Last Act (Edith Nesbit Poems)
NEVER a ring or a lock of hair Or a letter stained with tears, No crown for the ...
The Old Magic (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Gray is the sea, and the skies are gray;They are ghosts of our blue, bright yesterday;And gray are the breasts ...
To His lady, (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IMPLORING HER TO BE TRUEMISTRESS of me, mistress of all the arts And charms that sway men's hot ungoverned hearts, ...
Bridal Eve (Edith Nesbit Poems)
GOOD-NIGHT, my Heart, my Heart, good-night--Oh, good and dear and fair,With lips of life and eyes of lightAnd roses in ...
Invocation II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
COME to-night in a dream to-night,Come as you used to do,Come in the gown, in the gown of white,Come in ...
The Last Betrayal (Edith Nesbit Poems)
AND I shall lie alone at last,Clear of the stream that ran so fast,And feel the flower roots in my ...
The Death Of Agnes (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Now that the sunlight dies in my eyes,And the moonlight grows in my hair,I who was never very wise,Never was ...