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 ...
You told the story of your love;I heard as one who did not hear;Across the opening lips of hopeCrept the ...
Arise, and call her blessed,—seventy years!Each one a tongue to speak for her, who needsNo poor device of ours to ...
Push the bursting buds away,Throw aside the ripened roses,Hush the low-voiced waters' play,Where the weary sun reposesWith his head upon ...
You do not lift your eyes to watchUs pass the conscious door;Your startled ear perceiveth notOur footfall on the floor;No ...
"That we together may sail,Just as we used to do."Carleton's BalladsAnd what if I should be kind?And what if you ...
IAs sentient as a wedding-bell,The vibrant air throbs calling herWhose eager body, earwise curved,Leans listening at the heart of hell.She ...
My inmost soul, O Lord, to theeLeans like a growing flowerUnto the light. I do not knowThe day nor blessed ...
Two things love can do,Only two:Can distrust, or can believe;It can die, or it can live,There is no syncopePossible to ...
God be with you! through my losingAnd my grieving, shall I say?Through my smiling and my hoping,God be with you, ...
Coldly the night-wind shivers on the hill-top,Cold crawls the pale-faced fog from off the sea;Tossed by the one, and blinded ...
To the hope that he has taught,To the beauty he has wrought,To the comfort he has been;To the dream that ...
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