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 ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
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 ...
ONE morning, my heart can remember, I sat dreaming there, In the ...
I.IT is not Love, this beautiful unrest,This tremor of longing that invades my breast:For Love is in his grave this ...
WITH garlands to grace it, with laughter to greet it, Christmas is here, holly-red and snow-white, Hung round ...
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
THIS is a place where men laid their dead, Each with his life-tale of good or ill; Here ...
UNBIND thine eyes, with thine own soul confer, Look on the sins that made thy life unclean, Behold ...
NEVER again:No child shall stir the inmost heart of herAnd teach her heaven by that first faint stir;No little lips ...
MAKE strong your door with bolt and bar, Make every window fast; Strong brass and iron as they ...
OUT in the sun the buttercups are gold,The daisies silver all the grassy lane,And spring has given love a flower ...
TWO strangers, from opposing poles,Meet in the torrid zone of Love:And their desire seems set aboveThe limitation of their souls.This ...
COME home, come home, for your eyes are soreWith the glare of the noonday sun,And nothing looks as it did ...
LEAN down and see your little face Reflected in the forest pool, Tall foxgloves grow about the place, ...
WAKE, do you wake in the dark in the strange far place,Window and door not set like the ones we ...
THE flood of utter change is loosed. A space Is ours yet, for its coming to prepare. ...
THE house, with blind unhappy face, Stands lonely in the last year's corn, And in the ...
I found a starving cat in the street:It cried for food and a place by the fire.I carried it home, ...
OH God! if I do my dutyAnd walk in the thorny way,Will you pay me with heavens of beauty,Millions of ...
THE white snow falls on hill and dale, The snow falls white by square and street, Falls on ...
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 ...
WHITE bird of love, lie warm upon my breast, White flower of love, lie cool against ...
WHEN I am glad I need your eyesTo be the stars of Paradise;Your lips to be the seal of allThe ...
Does the wind sing in your ears at night, in the town, Rattling the windows and doors of the cheap-built ...
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