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 Soul (41 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 ...
At The Gate (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE monastery towers, as pure and fairAs virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;The walls, to guard the hidden ...
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 ...
A Song Of Parting (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DEDICATIONQUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song The richest crown a poet ever wore, Since ...
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 ...
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, ...
A Prayer For The King’s Majesty (Edith Nesbit Poems)
22nd January, 1901.THE Queen is dead. God save the King,In this his hour of grief,When sorrow gathers memories in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Last Appeal (Edith Nesbit Poems)
KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers, Hear how we cry to you, brothers of ours!-- Brothers in nature, pulse, ...
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 ...
At The Feast (Edith Nesbit Poems)
EVOLVING, changing, onwards still we press-- We must advance, invent, construct, possess; No matter what a price we ...
A Star In The East (Edith Nesbit Poems)
FOR THE ART EXHIBITION AT ST. JUDE'S, WHITECHAPELLIKE a fair flower springing fresh, sweet, and bright, Through prison ...
A Good-Bye (Edith Nesbit Poems)
FAREWELL! How soon unmeasured distance rolls Its leaden clouds between our parted souls! How little to each other now are ...
Hopes (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A PRINCESS, sleeping in enchanted bowers, Earth springs to waking at Spring's voice and kiss, And after winter's ...
The Heart Of Grief (Edith Nesbit Poems)
YOU will not come again Along the deep-banked lane To where the field and fold so ...
Absolution II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
UNBIND thine eyes, with thine own soul confer, Look on the sins that made thy life unclean, Behold ...
Quieta Ne Movete II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IF one should wake one's frozen faith In sunlight of her radiant eyes, Bid it forget its dream ...
The Gift Of The Gods (Edith Nesbit Poems)
GIVE me thy dreams, she said, and I With empty hands and very poor, Watched my fair flowery ...
To Iris (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IF I might build a palace, fairWith every joy of soul and sense,And set my heart as sentry thereTo guard ...
Seed-Time And Harvest (Edith Nesbit Poems)
MY hollyhocks are all awake, And not a single rose is lost; My wallflowers, for dear pity's sake, ...
These Little Ones (Edith Nesbit Poems)
What of the garden I gave?God said to me;"Hast thou been diligent to foster and saveThe life of flower and ...