Lost and Found (George MacDonald Poems)
I missed him when the sun began to bend;I found him not when I had lost his rim;With many tears ...
George MacDonald Poems (418 Poems)
To Any Friend (George MacDonald Poems)
If I did seem to you no moreThan to myself I seem,Not thus you would fling wide the door,And on ...
Russell Gurney (George MacDonald Poems)
In that high country whither thou art gone,Right noble friend, thou walkest with thy peers,The gathered great of many a ...
Sonnet: A. M. D. (George MacDonald Poems)
Methinks I see thee, lying straight and low,Silent and darkling, in thy earthy bed,The mighty strength in which I trusted, ...
The Burnt Offering (George MacDonald Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Going To Sleep (George MacDonald Poems)
Little one, you must not fretThat I take your clothes away;Better sleep you so will get,And at morning wake more ...
The Old Castle (George MacDonald Poems)
The brother knew well the castle old,Every closet, each outlook fair,Every turret and bartizan bold,Every chamber, garnished or bare.The brother ...
On The Source of The Arve (George MacDonald Poems)
Hears't thou the dash of water, loud and hoarse,With its perpetual tidings upward climb,Struggling against the wind? Oh, how sublime!For ...
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 ...
To Aubrey De Vere (George MacDonald Poems)
Ray of the Dawn of Truth, Aubrey de Vere,Forgive my play fantastic with thy name,Distilling its true essence by the ...
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 ...
In February (George MacDonald Poems)
Now in the dark of February rains,Poor lovers of the sunshine, spring is born,The earthy fields are full of hidden ...
Subsidy (George MacDonald Poems)
If thou wouldst live the Truth in very deed,Thou hast thy joy, but thou hast more of pain.Others will live ...
Autumn’s Gold (George MacDonald Poems)
Along the tops of all the yellow trees,The golden-yellow trees, the sunshine lies;And where the leaves are gone, long rays ...
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 ...
In A Churchyard (George MacDonald Poems)
There may be seeming calm above, but no!—There is a pulse below which ceases not,A subterranean working, fiery hot,Deep in ...
Who Lights The Fire? (George MacDonald Poems)
Who lights the fire—that forth so gracefullyAnd freely frolicketh the fairy smoke?Some pretty one who never felt the yoke—Glad girl, ...
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 ...
The Moon (George MacDonald Poems)
She comes! again she comes, the bright-eyed moon!Under a ragged cloud I found her out,Clasping her own dark orb like ...
Confidence (George MacDonald Poems)
Lie down upon the ground, thou hopeless one!Press thy face in the grass, and do not speak.Dost feel the green ...
To Garibaldi–W (George MacDonald Poems)
When at Philippi, he who would have freedGreat Rome from tyrants, for the season briefThat lay 'twixt him and battle, ...
Evil Influence (George MacDonald Poems)
'Tis not the violent hands alone that bringThe curse, the ravage, and the downward doom,Although to these full oft the ...
An Autumn Song (George MacDonald Poems)
Are the leaves falling round aboutThe churchyard on the hill?Is the glow of autumn going out?Is that the winter chill?And ...
Summer (George MacDonald Poems)
Summer, sweet Summer, many-fingered Summer!We hold thee very dear, as well we may:It is the kernel of the year to-day—All ...
Sun and Moon (George MacDonald Poems)
First came the red-eyed sun as I did wake;He smote me on the temples and I rose,Casting the night aside ...
Born of Water (George MacDonald Poems)
Methought I stood among the stars alone,Watching a grey parched orb which onward flewHalf blinded by the dusty winds that ...
Provision (George MacDonald Poems)
Above my head the great pine-branches tower;Backwards and forwards each to the other bends,Beckoning the tempest-cloud which hither wendsLike a ...
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 ...
God In Growth (George MacDonald Poems)
I said, I will arise and work some thing,Nor be content with growth, but cause to growA life around me, ...