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 ...
I dreamed that same old dream again last night;You know I told you of it once, and more:The sun had ...
A blessing on the Art that dares(Cold critic, call it what you may!)Bring precious things to common homes;A blessing fall ...
Because you cannot pluck the flower,You pass the sweet scent by;Because you cannot have the starsYou will not see the ...
Oh, not to you, my mentor sweet,And stern as only sweetness can,Whose grave eyes look out steadfastlyAcross my nature's plan,And ...
That heart were something cold, I think,That on the light of stars reliedFor daily fire; and cruel isThe perfumed breath ...
A moment's grace, Pygmalion! Let me beA breath's space longer on this hither handOf fate too sweet, too sad, too ...
Deep-hearted as an untried joyThe warm light blushes on the bay,And placid as long happinessThe perfect sky of Florida.Silent and ...
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 ...
FOR A BROTHER'S INSTALLATIONLord, are there any stones upon the way,That tear Thy bleeding feet?If our weak hands can move ...
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 ...
Oh, was it a death-dream not dreamed through,That eyed her like a foe?Or only a sorrow left over from life,Half-finished ...
He spoke of souls that stooped and sinned,Of hearts that turned to roam;He spoke of human restlessness,Of exile and of ...
The shadows watch about the house;Silent as they, I come.Oh, it is true that life is deaf,And not that death ...
O Sweet!I kiss thy feet.It is permitted meSo much to keep of thee,So much to give to thee.ReverentlyI touch thy ...
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 ...
Old, old,Centuries old,How old a love is, who can say?It is an ancient daySince thou and I wert wed.The orb?d ...
Cold Care and I have run a race,And I, fleet-foot, have wonA little space, a little hour,To find the May ...
At evening once, the lowly men who lovedOur Master were found desolate, and grievedFor Him whose eyes had been the ...
"We're all for love," the violins said.—Sidney LanierDo I love you? Do I love you?Ask the heavens that bend above ...
IDead, she drifted to his feet.Tell us, Love, is Death so sweet?Oh! the river floweth deep.Fathoms deeper is her sleep.Oh! ...
Last night I saw an arm?d band, whose feetDid take the martial step, although they trodSoundless as waves of light ...
Two things love can do,Only two:Can distrust, or can believe;It can die, or it can live,There is no syncopePossible to ...
Flushed with fancies, I bethought me,"Into music I will set them,Like a pearl into its settingOf the finest golden fretting;Never ...
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