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 ...
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
DEDICATIONQUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song The richest crown a poet ever wore, Since ...
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 ...
WHEN the star in the East was lit to shineThe three kings journeyed to Palestine;They came from the uttermost parts ...
22nd January, 1901.THE Queen is dead. God save the King,In this his hour of grief,When sorrow gathers memories in a ...
IN the deep heart of furthest fairyland Where foot of man has never trodden yet The enchanted portals ...
Young and a conqueror, once on a day,Wild white Winter rode out this way;With his sword of ice and his ...
LET them sing of their primrose and cowslip, Their daffodil-gold-coloured hair, Their bluebells, blue eyes, and white violets, ...
O CHRIST, born on the holy day, I have no gift to give my King; No flowers grow ...
THIS is Christ's birthday: long ago He lay upon His Mother's knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft ...
You need not call at the Inn;I have ordered my bed:Fair linen sheets thereinAnd a tester of lead.No musty fusty ...
THE land of gold was far away, The sea a challenge roared between; I left my ...
A POOR lost princess, weary and worn, Came over the down by the wind-washed moor, And the king ...
BENEATH cool ferns, in dewy grass, Among the leaves that fringe the stream, I hear the feet of ...
DELIA, my dear, delightful Lady, Time flies in town, you say, New gowns shine fresh as ...
NIGHT, ambushed in the darkling wood, Waited to seize the sleeping field, His sentinels the pine trees stood ...
MINE is a palace fair to see, All hung with gold and silver things, It is ...
THE lilac-time is over, Laburnum's day is past, The red may-blossoms cover The white ones, fallen ...
ONCE I loved, and my heart bowed down,Subject and slave, for Love was a King;He sat above with sceptre and ...
Before your feet,My love, my sweet,Behold! your slave bows down;And in his handsFrom other landsBrings you another crown.For in far ...
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