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 ...
Grace Greenwood Poems (68 Poems)
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 ...
Invocation To Mother Earth (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 EARTH! thy face hath not the graceThat smiling Heaven did bless,When thou wert "good," and blushing stoodIn thy young ...
War-Song Of The Magyars (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A BATTLE-SHOUT for HungaryOnce more shall wake the day, -A joyful summons to the brave,To rally for the fray;To gird ...
The Restored (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Our Father, when our loved one layWith her languid eyes half closed,When the darkening shadow of the graveOn her sunny ...
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 ...
Valentine To G. P. Morris (Grace Greenwood Poems)
APOLLO once had leave to travel;He sought our Yankee land,And he lionized it through,With his golden lyre in hand.Once, at ...
Fanny Forester (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A THOUSAND sweet ties bind her here, -O friend! thy fears are vain!The blessed angels will not breakSo soon this ...
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 ...
Reconciliation (Grace Greenwood Poems)
YES, all is well. The cloud hath passed awayThat hung above our friendship's path awhile;For truth hath pierced it with ...
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 ...
Valentine To A Poetess (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A NAMELESS power lives in thy verse,A gleam of things divine!And with meek looks and clasp(Grace Greenwood)
To A Poet (Grace Greenwood Poems)
TENDER and pale the young moon shone, -The time of dreams stole o'er the earth,Stilling the greenwood's sounds of mirth,Hushing ...
The Flight Of Genius (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHERE in their Northern grandeur lieOld Ocean's craggy shores, -Where waves give back the glorious sky,And lift unceasingly on highTheir ...
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 ...
Valentine To A Reformer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
"ENTHUSIAST," "Dreamer," - such the namesThine age bestows on thee,For that great nature, going forthIn world-wide sympathy;For the vision clear, ...
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 ...
Love’s Emblems (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a rose, that blushing grewWithin my life's young bower;The angels sprinkled holy dewUpon the blessed flower.I glory to ...
Valentine To Helen Irving (Grace Greenwood Poems)
AGAIN thou comest like a star of brightness, -As pure and tender, as serene and fair;I bear thy tones of ...
Valentine To Mr. Inman (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays,A damsel, in the good old days,Fell most imprudently in loveWith some stray seraph ...
Song III (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WE must silence, with words of cold reason,The eloquent voice of the heart;For Love hath stayed out his brief season,And ...
SONG I (Grace Greenwood Poems)
No passionless creature of duty,No child of capricious delay,Our love, like the goddess of beauty,Sprang into warm life in a ...
Song II (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Though now it were madness to cherishThe dream that enchained us so long,Yet shall it not utterly perish,For thou hast ...
Valentine To- (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WE never met; yet to my soulThy name hath been a voice of singing,And ever to thy glorious laysThe echoes ...
Valentine To One Who Knows (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THEY told me, when I knew thee first,Thou wert not made for loving,That next St. Valentine's would seeThy truant heart ...
To Miss A. C. L – (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY life is like a fountain clear, upspringingBeside the weary way I'm treading now;I love to linger near, and feel ...