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 Time (31 Poems)
Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
After Sixty Years (Edith Nesbit Poems)
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
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 ...
To The Queen Of England (Edith Nesbit Poems)
COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ...
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 ...
In Memoryt Of Saretta Deakin (Edith Nesbit Poems)
_Who Died on October 25th_, 1899.THERE was a day,A horrible Autumn day,When from her home, the home she made for ...
Inasmuch As Ye Did It Not . . . (Edith Nesbit Poems)
If Jesus came to London,Came to London to-day,He would not go to the West End,He would come down our way;He'd ...
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 Fire (Edith Nesbit Poems)
I was picking raspberries, my head was in the canes,And he came behind and kissed me, and I smacked him ...
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, ...
At The Feast (Edith Nesbit Poems)
EVOLVING, changing, onwards still we press-- We must advance, invent, construct, possess; No matter what a price we ...
The Beech Tree (Edith Nesbit Poems)
MY beautiful beech, your smooth grey coat is trimmedWith letters. Once, each stood for all things dearTo foolish lovers, dead ...
The Daisies (Edith Nesbit Poems)
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
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 Last Ditch (Edith Nesbit Poems)
LOVE, through your varied views on Art Untiring have I followed you, Content to know I had your ...
The Husband Of To-Day (Edith Nesbit Poems)
EYES caught by beauty, fancy by eyes caught; Sweet possibilities, question, and wonder-- What did her smile say? ...
The Skylark (Edith Nesbit Poems)
It is the skylark come. For shame!Robert-a-Cockney is thy name:Robert-a-Field would surely knowThat skylarks, bless them, never go!* * *Love ...
The Heart Of Joy (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DEAR, do you sigh that your love may not stay with you, Laugh with and play ...
Special Pleading (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE world's a path all fresh and sweet, A sky all fresh and fair, With daisies underneath your ...
The Invitation (Edith Nesbit Poems)
DELIA, my dear, delightful Lady, Time flies in town, you say, New gowns shine fresh as ...
To One Who Pleaded For Candour In Love (Edith Nesbit Poems)
HERE is the dim enchanted woodYour face, a mystery divine,But half revealed, half understood,Appears the counterpart of mine.Beyond the wood ...
The Last Act (Edith Nesbit Poems)
NEVER a ring or a lock of hair Or a letter stained with tears, No crown for the ...
In The People’s Park (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Many's the time I've found your faceFresh as a bunch of flowers in May,Waiting for me at our own old ...
Song V (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE sunshine of your presence liesOn the glad garden of my heartAnd bids the leaves of silence partTo show the ...
To Vera, Who Asked A Song (Edith Nesbit Poems)
IF I only had time!I could make you a rhyme.But my time is kept flyingBy smiling and sighingAnd living and ...
Christmas Roses (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE summer roses all are gone-- Dead, laid in shroud of rain-wet mould; And passion's lightning time is ...
Values (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Did you deceive me? Did I trustA heart of fire to a heart of dust?What matter? Since once the world ...