Petronilla (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
Of Peter's daughter, it is said, men told,While yet she breathed, a tale as sad as life,As sweet as death; ...
Of Peter's daughter, it is said, men told,While yet she breathed, a tale as sad as life,As sweet as death; ...
prologueWho shall tell the storyAs it was?Write it with the heart's blood?(Pale ink, alas!)Speak it with the soul's lips,Or be ...
Upon the city called the Friends'The light of waking springFell vivid as the shadow thrownFar from the gleaming wingOf a ...
Would I could see! I heard one say but now,"The strongest woman and the tenderest manThat ever God had dared ...
I dreamed that same old dream again last night;You know I told you of it once, and more:The sun had ...
Of Guinevere from Arthur separate,And separate from Launcelot and the world,And shielded in the convent with her sin,As one draws ...
A blessing on the Art that dares(Cold critic, call it what you may!)Bring precious things to common homes;A blessing fall ...
That heart were something cold, I think,That on the light of stars reliedFor daily fire; and cruel isThe perfumed breath ...
FOR A BROTHER'S INSTALLATIONLord, are there any stones upon the way,That tear Thy bleeding feet?If our weak hands can move ...
The boats bound in across the bar,Seen in fair colors from afar,Grown to dun colors strong and near;Their very shadows ...
"We're all for love," the violins said.—Sidney LanierDo I love you? Do I love you?Ask the heavens that bend above ...
If there be a landWhere our longings stand,Like angels strong and sweetWith wings at head and feet,Released from their long ...
O glad girls' faces, hushed and fair! how shall I sing for ye?For the grave picture of a sphinx is ...
Feeling the way,—and all the way up hill;But on the open summit, calm and still,The feet of Christ are planted; ...
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