Love’s History (George MacDonald Poems)
Love, the baby,Crept abroad to pluck a flower:One said, Yes, sir; one said, Maybe;One said, Wait the hour.Love, the boy,Joined ...
George MacDonald Poems on Man (123 Poems)
What The Lord Saith (George MacDonald Poems)
Trust my father, saith the eldest-born;I did trust him ere the earth began;Not to know him is to be forlorn;Not ...
To An Autograph-Hu (George MacDonald Poems)
Seek not my name—it doth no virtue bear;Seek, seek thine own primeval name to find—The name God called when thy ...
A Song Prayer (George MacDonald Poems)
Lord Jesus,Oh, ease usOf Self that oppresses,Annoys and distressesBody and brainWith dull pain!Thou never,Since ever,Save one moment only,Wast left, or ...
Written For One In Sore Pain (George MacDonald Poems)
Shepherd, on before thy sheep,Hear thy lamb that bleats behind!Scarce the track I stumbling keep!Through my thin fleece blows the ...
A Christmas Carol (George MacDonald Poems)
Babe Jesus lay in Mary's lap,The sun shone in his hair;And this was how she saw, mayhap,The crown already there.For ...
The Home of Death (George MacDonald Poems)
Death, whaur do ye bide, auld Death?"I bide in ilka breath,"Quo' Death;"No i' the pyramids,No whaur the wormie rids'Neth coffin-lids;I ...
Song of the Saints and Angels (George MacDonald Poems)
January 26, 1885Gordon, the self-refusing,Gordon, the lover of God,Gordon, the good part choosing,Welcome along the road!Thou knowest the man, O ...
Galileo (George MacDonald Poems)
And yet it moves! Ah, Truth, where wert thou thenWhen all for thee they racked each piteous limb?Wert thou in ...
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 ...
The Sweeper of the Floor (George MacDonald Poems)
Methought that in a solemn church I stood.Its marble acres, worn with knees and feet,Lay spread from door to door, ...
The Temple of God (George MacDonald Poems)
In the desert by the bush,Moses to his heart said Hush.David on his bed did pray;God all night went not ...
To The Clouds (George MacDonald Poems)
Through the unchanging heaven, as ye have sped,Speed onward still, a strange wild company,Fleet children of the waters! Glorious ye,Whether ...
Steadfast (George MacDonald Poems)
Here stands a giant stone from whose far topComes down the sounding water: let me gazeTill every sense of man ...
First Sight of The Sea (George MacDonald Poems)
I do remember how, when very young,I saw the great sea first, and heard its swellAs I drew nearer, caught ...
The Prophet (George MacDonald Poems)
Speak, Prophet of the Lord! We may not startTo find thee with us in thine ancient dress,Haggard and pale from ...
Reverence Waking Hope (George MacDonald Poems)
A power is on me, and my soul must speakTo thee, thou grey, grey man, whom I beholdWith those white-headed ...
Unrest (George MacDonald Poems)
Comes there, O Earth, no breathing time for thee,No pause upon thy many-chequered lands?Now resting on my bed with listless ...
The Human (George MacDonald Poems)
Within each living man there doth reside,In some unrifled chamber of the heart,A hidden treasure: wayward as thou artI love ...
Power (George MacDonald Poems)
Power that is not of God, however great,Is but the downward rushing and the glareOf a swift meteor that hath ...
Life Or Death? (George MacDonald Poems)
Is there a secret Joy, that may not weep,For every flower that ends its little span,For every child that groweth ...
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 ...
A Song In The Night: I would I were an angel strong, (George MacDonald Poems)
I would I were an angel strong,An angel of the sun, hasting along!I would I were just come awake,A child ...
The Giver (George MacDonald Poems)
To give a thing and take againIs counted meanness among men;To take away what once is givenCannot then be the ...
The Man of Songs (George MacDonald Poems)
Thou wanderest in the land of dreams,O man of many songs!To thee what is, but looks and seems;No realm to ...
That Holy Thing (George MacDonald Poems)
They all were looking for a kingTo slay their foes, and lift them high:Thou cam'st a little baby thingThat made ...
The Women Who Ministered Unto Him (George MacDonald Poems)
Enough he labours for his hire;Yea, nought can pay his pain;But powers that wear and waste and tire,Need help to ...
Song-Sermon (George MacDonald Poems)
Mercy to thee, O Lord, belongs,For as his work thou giv'st the man.From us, not thee, come all our wrongs;Mercy ...