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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Dread phantom, with pale finger on thy lips, Who dost unclose the awful doors for each, That ope but once, and are ...
Out of the dread eternities, The vast abyss of night,A glorious pageant rose and shone, And passed from human sight.We saw the ...
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
When the earliest south winds softly blowOver the brown earth, and the waning snowIn the last days of the discrowned ...
Discrowned and desolate,And wandering with dim eyes and faded hair,Singing sad songs to comfort her despair, Grey Autumn meets her fate. Forsaken ...
I lift my spirit to your cloudy thrones, And feel it broaden to your vast expanse, Oh! mountains, so immeasurably old, Crowned with ...
It is the hither side, O Hope,And afternoon; our shadows slopeBackward along the mountain cope.The early morning was so sweet,We ...
Cloudy argosies are drifting down into the purple dark,And the long low amber reaches, lying on the horizon's mark,Shape themselves ...
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 ...
All night a slow soft rain,A shadowy stranger from a cloudy land,Sighing and sobbing, with unsteady hand Beat at the lattice, ...
Into the west the day goes down, Smiling and fading into the night,Is it a cross, or is it a crown I ...
O not with arms reversed, And the slow beating of the muffled drum, And funeral marches, bring our hero homeThese stormy woods ...
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 ...
Break over the waiting hill-tops, White dawn of the Christmas morn!For the angels have sung through the midnight, That the wonderful Babe ...
Stay yet awhile, oh flowers!—oh wandering grasses, And creeping ferns, and climbing, clinging vines;—Bend down and cover with lush odorous masses My ...
The wind croons under the icicled eaves— Croons and mutters a wordless song,And the old elm chafes its skeleton leaves Against the ...
Be pitiful, oh God! the night is long, My soul is faint with watching for the light, And still the gloom and ...
Oh Sea, that with infinite sadness, and infinite yearningLiftest thy crystal forehead toward the unpitying stars,—Evermore ebbing and flowing, and ...
A little white soul went up to God, Out of the mire of the city street;It grew like a flower in ...
A little bird woke singing in the night, Dreaming of coming day,And piped, for very fulness of delight, His little roundelay.Dreaming he ...
The moon went under a ragged cloud, The owl cried out of the ruined wall,Slow and solemn, distinct and loud, His melancholy ...
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