The Coming of the Princess (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
I.Break dull November skies, and makeSunshine over wood and lake,And fill your cells of frosty airWith thousand, thousand welcomes to ...
I.Break dull November skies, and makeSunshine over wood and lake,And fill your cells of frosty airWith thousand, thousand welcomes to ...
I dreamed, and lo, I saw in my dream a beautiful gateway, Arched at the top, and crowned with turrets lance-windowed ...
In the beautiful May weather, Lapsing soon into June; On a golden, golden day Of the green and golden May, When our hearts were ...
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
As the sand of the desert is smitten By hoof-beats that strike out a light,A flash by which dumb things are ...
From out the dark of death, before the gatesFlung wide, that open into paradise--More radiant than the white gates of ...
Dimly and dumbly under the ground,Groping the walls of their prison round,The roots of the aged and garrulous treesAre sending ...
In those dark mornings, deep in June, When brooding birds stir in the nest,And heavy dews slip down the leaves, And drop ...
I touch but the things which are near; The heavens are too high for my reach: In shadow and symbol and creed, I ...
Out of the dread eternities, The vast abyss of night,A glorious pageant rose and shone, And passed from human sight.We saw the ...
Discrowned and desolate,And wandering with dim eyes and faded hair,Singing sad songs to comfort her despair, Grey Autumn meets her fate. Forsaken ...
Down the steep west unrolled, I watch the river of the sunset flow,With all its crimson lights, and gleaming gold, Into the ...
I have been where the roses blow, Where the orange ripens its gold,And the mountains stand with their peaks of snow, To ...
I lift my spirit to your cloudy thrones, And feel it broaden to your vast expanse, Oh! mountains, so immeasurably old, Crowned with ...
In the sleep-haunted gloomBorn of the slumbrous twilight in these shades,These vast and venerable collonades, I welcome thee, dear June! And while ...
Sundown—and silence—and deep peace,—Night's benediction and release;—The tints of day die out and cease.This morn I heard the Sabbath bellsAcross ...
Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows, And shining like a Christmas rose,Wreathed round with white chrysanthemums; Heaven in his innocent, brave ...
A half a century of time, The mingled pain and blissThat make the history of life Between that day and this;Two lives ...
Into the west the day goes down, Smiling and fading into the night,Is it a cross, or is it a crown I ...
Under the bare brown rafters, In his garret bed he lay,And dreamed of the bright hereafters. And the merry morns of May.The ...
On the early and lamented death of George and Maggie Rosseaux,brother and sister, who died within one week of each ...
Above the roofs and chimney-tops, And through the slow November rain, A light from some far attic pane,Shines twinkling through the water-drops.Some ...
Night! the horrible wizard Night! The dumb and terrible NightHath drawn his circle of magic, roundOver the sky, and over the ...
Oh, my blossom, my darling, whose dimpled hands are cold!Oh, my baby, my treasure, laid under the green mould!Earth pressed on ...
Oh lapping waves!—oh gnawing waves!— That rest not day nor night,— I hear ye when the lightIs dim and awful in your ...
Stay yet awhile, oh flowers!—oh wandering grasses, And creeping ferns, and climbing, clinging vines;—Bend down and cover with lush odorous masses My ...
Art thou not sweet,Oh world, and glad to the inmost heart of thee! All creatures rejoice With one rapturous voice. As I, with ...
Be pitiful, oh God! the night is long, My soul is faint with watching for the light, And still the gloom and ...
A little white soul went up to God, Out of the mire of the city street;It grew like a flower in ...
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