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 ...
Because you cannot pluck the flower,You pass the sweet scent by;Because you cannot have the starsYou will not see the ...
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 ...
Arise, and call her blessed,—seventy years!Each one a tongue to speak for her, who needsNo poor device of ours to ...
Lord, Thou hast promised. Lo! I give Thee backThine own great Word. Keep it. I summon Thee.Keep it as God ...
You do not lift your eyes to watchUs pass the conscious door;Your startled ear perceiveth notOur footfall on the floor;No ...
Wise was the word the wise man spake, who said,"Angelo was the only man to whom God gaveFour souls,"—the soul ...
IAs sentient as a wedding-bell,The vibrant air throbs calling herWhose eager body, earwise curved,Leans listening at the heart of hell.She ...
He spoke of souls that stooped and sinned,Of hearts that turned to roam;He spoke of human restlessness,Of exile and of ...
Separate, upon the folded pageOf myth or marvel, sad or glad,The test that gave the Lord to thee,And thee to ...
Atalanta and I know better!Distrust you the fable of old,Of the envious Goddess who set herOn to defeat by tempting ...
The breakers warned them from the sea,The late light lured them up the shore;The jewels of the golden-rodBlazed deep as ...
A true knight! Knowing neither worldly fear,Nor yet reproach of her unworldly faith;Fine eyes shall see, yet see not, on ...
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