Pygmalion (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
Grace Greenwood Poems on Love (40 Poems)
Ariadne (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DAUGHTER Of Crete, how one brief hour,E'en in thy young love's early morn,Sends storm and darkness o'er thy bower, -O ...
Dreams (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
Voices From The Old World: The Famine Of 1847 (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A voice from out the Highlands,Old Scotia's mountain homes!From wild burn-side, and darksome glen,And towering steep, it comes!Is it the ...
The Gold-Seeker (Grace Greenwood Poems)
'T was upon a Southern desert, and beneath a burning sky,That a pilgrim to the gold-clime sunk, o'erwearied, down to ...
Proem (Grace Greenwood Poems)
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
Spirit Longings (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LOOK upon 1ife's glorious things,The deathless themes of song,The grand, the proud, the beautiful,The wild, the free, the strong,And ...
To- In Absence (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
A Fragment (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
Darkened Hours (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
The Dream (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LAST night, my love, I dreamed of thee,Yet 't was no dream Elysian:Draw closer to my breast, dear Blanche,The while ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
I Never Will Grow Old (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O, NO, I never will grow old;Though years on years roll by,And silver o'er my dark brown hair,And dim my ...
Hervey To Nina – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DIVIDED in our lives, and yet twin-hearted!Our sad first parents shared a happier fate;When, from Love's Eden, dearest, we departed,'T ...
Emilie Plater (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
The Story Of A Life (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE world smiled on me at my birth, -Beneath a rose-hued sky,Rocked on the summer waves of love,My childhood glided ...
Constance (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
The Wife’s Appeal (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I'M thinking, Charles, 't is just a year,Or will be, very soon,Since first you told me of your love,One glorious ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
Nina To Hervey – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
CANST thou forget, beloved, our first awakingFrom out the shadowy realm of doubts and dreams,To know Love's perfect sunlight round ...
A Lay (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE glorious queen of heaven, who flingsHer royal radiance round me now,As with clasped hands and upturned browI watch her ...
The First Doubt (Grace Greenwood Poems)
My heart is chilled with sudden fear,And heavy on my spirit liesThe doubt that breathed from thy harsh tones,And looked ...
To One Afar (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O'STRONG and pure of soul! - O earnest-hearted!Like stranger-pilgrims at some way-side shrineHave we two met, and mingled faith, and ...
Love-Letter To A Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DEAR Anna, hast ne'er heard it toldHow florists have the curious powerTo graft on some rude garden-plantA tender and exquisite ...
The Lost Heart (Grace Greenwood Poems)
"SAY, have you found the heart I lostAs you and I, last night,The fragrant, new-mown meadow crossed,Beneath the sweet starlight?""I ...
The Poet’s Home (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WE have struggled up the hill-side,We stand upon its brow, -O, lovely as a dream of heaven,The scene before us ...
Valentine To Fitz-Greene Halleck (Grace Greenwood Poems)
MUST silence rest upon thy lyre,And will thy hand awake it never?And must the great deeps of thy soulRemain becalmed ...
An Offering To Anna (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I SEND this ring of braided hair,A simple gift, to thee,One more fond pledge of perfect trust,And perfect peace, from ...
Therese (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A ROSE once pressed against thy lips,Then gayly flung to me,Is all the gift I treasure upIn memory of thee;It ...