The Sinless Child Part 6 (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless airIn perfumed chalice lies,And the bee goes by with a lazy hum,Beneath the ...
'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless airIn perfumed chalice lies,And the bee goes by with a lazy hum,Beneath the ...
The loud winds rattled at the door-The shutters creaked and shook,While Eva, by the cottage hearth,Sat with abstracted look.With every ...
Untiring all the weary dayThe widow toiled with care,And scarcely cleared her furrowed browWhen came the hour of prayer;The voices, ...
As years passed on, no wonder, eachAn inward grace revealed;For where the soul is peace and love,It may not be ...
Then trim the lights, my strange, strange child,And let the fagots glow;For more of these mysterious thingsI fear, yet long, ...
Whilom ago, in lowly life,Young Eva lived and smiled,A fair-haired girl, of wondrous truth,And blameless from a child.Gentle she was, ...
'Twas night-bright beamed the silver moon,And all the stars were dim;The widow heard within the dellSweet voices of a hymn,As ...
Sweet Eva! Shall I send thee forthWith other hearts to speak?With all thy timidness and love,Companionship to seek?Send thee with ...
Still onward goes the barque- the tideBears it along where breakers foam and roar,And oaks unbending, riven, line the shore;Dense ...
With no fond, sickly thirst for fame, I kneel,Oh, goddess, of the high-born art to thee;Not unto thee with semblance ...
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