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 ...
Would I could see! I heard one say but now,"The strongest woman and the tenderest manThat ever God had dared ...
A blessing on the Art that dares(Cold critic, call it what you may!)Bring precious things to common homes;A blessing fall ...
That heart were something cold, I think,That on the light of stars reliedFor daily fire; and cruel isThe perfumed breath ...
Oh, not to you, my mentor sweet,And stern as only sweetness can,Whose grave eyes look out steadfastlyAcross my nature's plan,And ...
Half a dozen childrenAt our house!Half a dozen childrenQuiet as a mouse,Quiet as a moonbeam,You could hear a pin—Waiting for ...
Push the bursting buds away,Throw aside the ripened roses,Hush the low-voiced waters' play,Where the weary sun reposesWith his head upon ...
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 ...
Separate, upon the folded pageOf myth or marvel, sad or glad,The test that gave the Lord to thee,And thee to ...
Flushed with fancies, I bethought me,"Into music I will set them,Like a pearl into its settingOf the finest golden fretting;Never ...
She standeth silent as a thoughtToo sacred to be uttered; allHer face unfurling like a flowerThat at a breath too ...
Just before you came,There stole into the airA thought without a name.Such a pretty thought!Shy, and faint, and fair,—I wish ...
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