Words In The Night (George MacDonald Poems)
I woke at midnight, and my heart,My beating heart, said this to me:Thou seest the moon, how calm and bright!The ...
George MacDonald Poems (418 Poems)
After Thomas Kempis (George MacDonald Poems)
I.Who follows Jesus shall not walkIn darksome road with danger rife;But in his heart the Truth will talk,And on his ...
The Lost Soul (George MacDonald Poems)
Look! look there!Send your eyes across the grayBy my finger-point awayThrough the vaporous, fumy air.Beyond the air, you see the ...
The Bonny, Bonny Dell (George MacDonald Poems)
Oh! the bonny, bonny dell, whaur the yorlin sings,Wi' a clip o' the sunshine atween his wings;Whaur the birks are ...
The Mermaid (George MacDonald Poems)
Up cam the tide wi' a burst and a whush,And back gaed the stanes wi' a whurr;The king's son walkit ...
The Last Wooin (George MacDonald Poems)
O lat me in, my bonny lass!It's a lang road ower the hill,And the flauchterin snaw begud to fa'On the ...
The Girl That Lost Things (George MacDonald Poems)
There was a girl that lost things—Nor only from her hand;She lost, indeed—why, most things,As if they had been sand!She ...
Legend of The Corrievrecha (George MacDonald Poems)
Prince Breacan of Denmark was lord of the strandAnd lord of the billowy sea;Lord of the sea and lord of ...
The Auld Man’s Prayer (George MacDonald Poems)
Lord, I'm an auld man,An' I'm deein!An' do what I canI canna help beinSome feart at the thoucht!I'm no what ...
Mary (George MacDonald Poems)
I.She sitteth at the Master's feetIn motionless employ;Her ears, her heart, her soul completeDrinks in the tide of joy.Ah! who ...
Little Bo-Peep (George MacDonald Poems)
Little Bo-Peep, she has lost her sheep,And will not know where to find them;They are over the height and out ...
Wild Flowers (George MacDonald Poems)
Content Primroses,With hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care,Peeping as from his mother's lap the childWho courts shy ...
An Old Sermon With a New Text (George MacDonald Poems)
My wife contrived a fleecy thingHer husband to infold,For 'tis the pride of woman stillTo cover from the cold:My daughter ...
The Unseen Model (George MacDonald Poems)
Forth to his study the sculptor goesIn a mood of lofty mirth:"Now shall the tongues of my carping foesConfess what ...
The Golden Key (George MacDonald Poems)
From off the earth the vapours curled,Went up to meet their joy;The boy awoke, and all the worldWas waiting for ...
Songs of the Autumn Days (George MacDonald Poems)
I.We bore him through the golden land,One early harvest morn;The corn stood ripe on either hand—He knew all about the ...
Songs of the Winter Nights (George MacDonald Poems)
I.Back shining from the pane, the fireSeems outside in the snow:So love set free from love's desireLights grief of long ...
Songs of the Summer Days (George MacDonald Poems)
I.A glory on the chamber wall!A glory in the brain!Triumphant floods of glory fallOn heath, and wold, and plain.Earth lieth ...
Tell Me (George MacDonald Poems)
Traveller, what lies over the hill?Traveller, tell to me:Tip-toe-high on the window-sillOver I cannot see."My child, a valley green lies ...
Songs of the Spring Nights (George MacDonald Poems)
I.The flush of green that dyed the dayHath vanished in the moon;Flower-scents float stronger out, and playAn unborn, coming tune.One ...
Songs of the Winter Days (George MacDonald Poems)
I.The sky has turned its heart away,The earth its sorrow found;The daisies turn from childhood's play,And creep into the ground.The ...
Songs of the Spring Days (George MacDonald Poems)
I.A gentle wind, of western birthOn some far summer sea,Wakes daisies in the wintry earth,Wakes hopes in wintry me.The sun ...
The Laverock (George MacDonald Poems)
The Man says:Laverock i' the lift,Hae ye nae sang-thrift,'At ye scatter 't sae heigh, and lat it a' drift?Wasterfu laverock!Dinna ...
Songs of the Summer Nights (George MacDonald Poems)
I.The dreary wind of night is out,Homeless and wandering slow;O'er pale seas moaning like a doubt,It breathes, but will not ...
Time And Time (George MacDonald Poems)
As I was walkin on the strand,I spied ane auld man sitOn ane auld black rock; and aye the wavesCam ...
If I Were A Monk, And If Thou Wert A Nun (George MacDonald Poems)
If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun,Pacing it wearily, wearily,Twixt chapel and cell till day were done—Wearily, ...
Songs of the Autumn Nights (George MacDonald Poems)
I.O night, send up the harvest moonTo walk about the fields,And make of midnight magic noonOn lonely tarns and wealds.In ...
The Woman In The Temple (George MacDonald Poems)
A still dark joy! A sudden face!Cold daylight, footsteps, cries!The temple's naked, shining space,Aglare with judging eyes!All in abandoned guilty ...
The Early Bird (George MacDonald Poems)
A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;Day-long she had worked almost ...
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 ...