The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
Edith Nesbit Poems on Light (51 Poems)
Tekel (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East, Then from the splendour and the shame of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Song Of Trafalgar (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LIKE an angry sun, like a splendid star, War gleams down the long years' track; They strain at ...
The Return (Edith Nesbit Poems)
The grass was gray with the moonlit dew,The stones were white as I came through;I came down the path by ...
Spring Song II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE spring is here, and the long nights grow Less bitterly cold than awhile ago; Our rags serve their purpose ...
The ghost Bereft (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE poor ghost came through the wind and rain And passed down the old dear road again. Thin cowered the ...
Out Of The Fulness Of The Heart The Mouth Speaketh (Edith Nesbit Poems)
In answer to those who have said that English Poetsgive no personal love to their country.ENGLAND, my country, austere in ...
The Spider Queen (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IN the deep heart of furthest fairyland Where foot of man has never trodden yet The enchanted portals ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mother’s Prayer (Edith Nesbit Poems)
This was my little sonWho leapt and laughed on my knee:Body we made with love,Soul made with love by Thee.This ...
The Lost Embassy (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE lilies lean to the white, white rose, The sweet limes send to the blossomed trees, Soft kisses borne by ...
For The New Year (Edith Nesbit Poems)
FLUSHED with a crimson sunrise beauty, The fair new year its promise gave; Such dreams we had of ...
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, ...
At The Feast (Edith Nesbit Poems)
EVOLVING, changing, onwards still we press-- We must advance, invent, construct, possess; No matter what a price we ...
Absolution II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
UNBIND thine eyes, with thine own soul confer, Look on the sins that made thy life unclean, Behold ...
Saturday Song (Edith Nesbit Poems)
They talk about gardens of roses,And moonlight over the sea,And mountains and snowAnd sunsetty glow,But I know what is best ...
The Star (Edith Nesbit Poems)
I HAD a star to sing by, a beautiful star that led,But when I sang of its splendour the world ...
Evening Song (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN all the weary flowers, Worn out with sunlit hours, Droop o'er the garden beds ...
England (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom, Living amber of wheat, and copper of new-ploughed ...
On The Downs (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE little moon is dead, Drowned in the flood of rain That drips from roof of byre and ...
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 ...
Special Pleading (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE world's a path all fresh and sweet, A sky all fresh and fair, With daisies underneath your ...