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 Spring (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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 Last Envoy (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THIS wind, that through the silent woodland blows, O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes Straight to the ...
The Champion (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Young and a conqueror, once on a day,Wild white Winter rode out this way;With his sword of ice and his ...
Christmas (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WITH garlands to grace it, with laughter to greet it, Christmas is here, holly-red and snow-white, Hung round ...
Christmas Hymn (Edith Nesbit Poems)
O CHRIST, born on the holy day, I have no gift to give my King; No flowers grow ...
The Ferry (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DRAW close the curtains, and shut out The spring's green glow and glitter; The ...
A Kentish Garden (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THERE is a grey-walled garden, far away From noise and smoke of cities, where the hours ...
Hopes (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A PRINCESS, sleeping in enchanted bowers, Earth springs to waking at Spring's voice and kiss, And after winter's ...
Pessimism (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IWHILE baby Spring sticks daisies in her hair, Or Summer laughs with flushed triumphant face We ...
The Promise Of Spring (Edith Nesbit Poems)
JUST a whisper, half-heard, But our heart knows the word; Caresses that seem Like love's lips in a dream; ...
Vies Manquees (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A YEAR ago we walked the wood-- A year ago to-day; A blackbird fluttered round her ...
England (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom, Living amber of wheat, and copper of new-ploughed ...
Spring Song III (Edith Nesbit Poems)
HERE'S the Spring-time, Sweet! Earth's green gown is new, Lambs begin to bleat, Doves begin to ...
Faith (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A wallGray and tall,And a sky of gray,And a twilight cold;And that is allThat my eyes behold.But I know that ...
To His Lady (Edith Nesbit Poems)
(Who asked a Song in Spring)WHY do you bid your poet sing, Who has no mind to song-- ...
The New Dispensation (Edith Nesbit Poems)
OUT in the sun the buttercups are gold,The daisies silver all the grassy lane,And spring has given love a flower ...
In Sanctuary (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE young Spring air was strong like wine, The sky reflected in your eyes Was of a blue ...
Town And Country (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE Sun tells to Trafalgar Square His old and radiant story, And touches in the young spring air ...
The Fields Of Flanders (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Last year the fields were all glad and gayWith silver daisies and silver may;There were kingcups gold by the river's ...
A Portrait (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LIKE the sway of the silver birch in the breeze of dawn Is her dainty way; ...
Song II (Edith Nesbit Poems)
A MONTH of green and tender May, All woods and walks awake with flowers, Wide sunlit meadows for ...
In Hospital (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Under the shadow of a hawthorn brake,Where bluebells draw the sky down to the wood,Where, 'mid brown leaves, the primroses ...