At My Window After Sunset (George MacDonald Poems)
Heaven and the sea attend the dying day,And in their sadness overflow and blend—Faint gold, and windy blue, and green ...
Heaven and the sea attend the dying day,And in their sadness overflow and blend—Faint gold, and windy blue, and green ...
I would I were a child,That I might look, and laugh, and say, My Father!And follow thee with running feet, ...
To: E.M. II.Dear friend, you love the poet's song,And here is one for your regard.You know the "melancholy bard,"Whose grief ...
I.In the ancient house of ages,See, they cannot rest!With a hope, which awe assuages,Tremble all the blest.For the son and ...
A harebell hung her wilful head:"I am tired, so tired! I wish I was dead."She hung her head in the ...
Behind my father's cottage liesA gentle grassy heightUp which I often ran—to gazeBack with a wondering sight,For then the chimneys ...
Every time would have its songIf the heart were right,Seeing Love all tender-strongFills the day and night.Weary drop the hands ...
For years eighteen she, patient soul,Her eyes had graveward sent;Her earthly life was lapt in dole,She was so bowed and ...
Well for youth to seek the strong,Beautiful, and brave!We, the old, who walk alongGently to the grave,Only pay our court ...
Gray clouds my heaven have covered o'er;My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow;Ghastly and dry, my desert shoreParched, bare, ...
It is no winter night comes downUpon our hearts, dear friends of old;But a May evening, softly brown,Whose wind is ...
Father, in the dark I lay,Thirsting for the light,Helpless, but for hope alwayIn thy father-might.Out of darkness came the morn,Out ...
Mourner, that dost deserve thy mournfulness,Call thyself punished, call the earth thy hell;Say, "God is angry, and I earned it ...
Thrice-happy he whose heart, each new-born night,When old-worn day hath vanished o'er earth's brim,And he hath laid him down in ...
If thou art tempted by a thought of ill,Crave not too soon for victory, nor deemThou art a coward if ...
Bands of dark and bands of lightLie athwart the homeward way;Now we cross a belt of Night,Now a strip of ...
I am weary, and very lonely,And can but think—think.If there were some water onlyThat a spirit might drink—drink,And arise,With light ...
To give a thing and take againIs counted meanness among men;To take away what once is givenCannot then be the ...
Sweet friends, receive my offering. You will findAgainst each worded page a white page set:—This is the mirror of each ...
When God's own child came down to earth,High heaven was very glad;The angels sang for holy mirth;Not God himself was ...
An unborn bird lies crumpled and curled,A-dreaming of the world.Round it, for castle-wall, a shellIs guarding it well.Hope is the ...
Where is thy crown, O tree of Love?Flowers only bears thy root!Will never rain drop from aboveDivine enough for fruit?"I ...
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