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 ...
Of Guinevere from Arthur separate,And separate from Launcelot and the world,And shielded in the convent with her sin,As one draws ...
Deep-hearted as an untried joyThe warm light blushes on the bay,And placid as long happinessThe perfect sky of Florida.Silent and ...
Arise, and call her blessed,—seventy years!Each one a tongue to speak for her, who needsNo poor device of ours to ...
I like that old, kind legendNot found in Holy Writ,And wish that John or MatthewHad made Bible out of it.But ...
The boats bound in across the bar,Seen in fair colors from afar,Grown to dun colors strong and near;Their very shadows ...
Blinded I groped—you gave me sight.Perplexed I turned—you sent me light.You speak unto a thousand ears:I pay you tribute in ...
Within the window's scant recess,Behind a pink geranium flower,She sits and sews, and sews and sits,From patient hour to patient ...
There is no vacant chair. The loving meet—A group unbroken—smitten, who knows how?One sitteth silent only, in his usual seat;We ...
Cold Care and I have run a race,And I, fleet-foot, have wonA little space, a little hour,To find the May ...
"We're all for love," the violins said.—Sidney LanierDo I love you? Do I love you?Ask the heavens that bend above ...
Atalanta and I know better!Distrust you the fable of old,Of the envious Goddess who set herOn to defeat by tempting ...
Deep in the brooding shadow of thy wing,Hidden and hushed and harbored here,My soul for very stillness cannot sing;A word ...
If it might only beThat in the singing sea,The living, lighted sea,There were a place for you to creepAway, among ...
Happiness has found me out,Found me out at last!O, she 's dogged me round about;All my hurrying life she 's ...
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