Song (George MacDonald Poems)
I was very coldIn the summer weather;The sun shone all his gold,But I was very cold—Alas, we were grown old,Love ...
George MacDonald Poems on Love (106 Poems)
Shew Us The Father (George MacDonald Poems)
Shew us the Father. Chiming stars of space,And lives that fit the worlds, and means and powers,A Thought that holds ...
Christmas Day, 1850 (George MacDonald Poems)
Beautiful stories wed with lovely daysLike words and music:—what shall be the taleOf love and nobleness that might availTo express ...
The Unseen Face (George MacDonald Poems)
I do beseech thee, God, show me thy face."Come up to me in Sinai on the morn!Thou shall behold as ...
Equity (George MacDonald Poems)
No bird can sing in tune but that the LordSits throned in equity above the heaven,And holds the righteous balance ...
Who Would Have Thought? (George MacDonald Poems)
Who would have thought that even an idle songWere such a holy and celestial thingThat wickedness and envy cannot sing—That ...
The True (George MacDonald Poems)
I envy the tree-tops that shake so highIn winds that fill them full of heavenly airs;I envy every little cloud ...
Two In One (George MacDonald Poems)
Were thou and I the white pinionsOn some eager, heaven-born dove,Swift would we mount to the old dominions,To our rest ...
One With Nature (George MacDonald Poems)
I have a fellowship with every shadeOf changing nature: with the tempest hourMy soul goes forth to claim her early ...
Noontide Hymn (George MacDonald Poems)
I love thy skies, thy sunny mists,Thy fields, thy mountains hoar,Thy wind that bloweth where it lists—Thy will, I love ...
The Grace of Grace (George MacDonald Poems)
Had I the grace to win the graceOf some old man in lore complete,My face would worship at his face,And ...
Approaches (George MacDonald Poems)
When thou turn'st away from ill,Christ is this side of thy hill.When thou turnest toward good,Christ is walking in thy ...
O Do Not Leave Me (George MacDonald Poems)
O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep;Till I forget, be near me in that chair.The mother's presence leads ...
Much and More (George MacDonald Poems)
When thy heart, love-filled, grows graver,And eternal bliss looks nearer,Ask thy heart, nor show it favour,Is the gift or giver ...
Hope Deferred (George MacDonald Poems)
Where is thy crown, O tree of Love?Flowers only bears thy root!Will never rain drop from aboveDivine enough for fruit?"I ...
A Birth-Day Wish (George MacDonald Poems)
Who know thee, love: thy life be suchThat, ere the year be o'er,Each one who loves thee now so much,Even ...