Stronger Than Death (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Of Guinevere from Arthur separate,And separate from Launcelot and the world,And shielded in the convent with her sin,As one draws ...
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 ...
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 ...
I like that old, kind legendNot found in Holy Writ,And wish that John or MatthewHad made Bible out of it.But ...
Lord, Thou hast promised. Lo! I give Thee backThine own great Word. Keep it. I summon Thee.Keep it as God ...
Master! let stronger lips than theseTurn melody to harmony,Poet! mine tremble as they craveA word alone with thee.Thy songs melt ...
Wise was the word the wise man spake, who said,"Angelo was the only man to whom God gaveFour souls,"—the soul ...
Take back, my friend, the gifts once given.No fairer find I this side HeavenWith which to bless thee, than thine ...
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 ...
At evening once, the lowly men who lovedOur Master were found desolate, and grievedFor Him whose eyes had been the ...
My inmost soul, O Lord, to theeLeans like a growing flowerUnto the light. I do not knowThe day nor blessed ...
I read of the ermine to-day,Of the ermine who will not stepBy the feint of a step in the mire,—The ...
All the day the light lies dreaming, dreaming,Quietly on the lea.All the day the ships go sailing, sailing,Over an unseen ...
All the rivers run into the sea.Like the pulsing of a river,The motion of a song,Wind the olden words alongThe ...
Of iron were his arms; they could have heldThe need of half the kingdom up; and inHis brow were iron ...
The wave goes down, the wind goes down,The gray tide glitters on the sea,The moon seems praying in the sky.Gates ...
God be with you! through my losingAnd my grieving, shall I say?Through my smiling and my hoping,God be with you, ...
Oh, never a word he answered,And never a word spake she!They turned their faces each from each,And looked upon the ...
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 ...
Heart of iron, smile of ice,Oh! the rock.See him stand as dumb as death.If you could,Would you care to stir ...
It shall be as it hath been.All the world is glad and green—Hush! Ah, hush! There cannot beApril now for ...
It was a weary hour,I looked in the lily-bell.How holy is the flower!It leaned like an angel against the light;"O ...
For the faith that is not brokenBy the burden of the day;For the word that is not spoken(Dearest words are ...
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