The Sceptic (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
SWEET were the faiths our wishes bred; cruel is faithless fate;All things show good or evil as we love them ...
SWEET were the faiths our wishes bred; cruel is faithless fate;All things show good or evil as we love them ...
THERE goes a wandering soul in desert places;(Good Lord, deliver!)About its way lie dumb, with livid faces,Slain virtures and slain ...
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
WHAT of our time?(Oracle.)A fog and a blur,A hum and a whirr,And large mellow lights that are slowly dawning;Lo! elements ...
THERE are sea and sky about me, And yet nothing sense can mark;For a mist fills all the midnight Adding blindness to ...
NOW are the days of greyness and of gloom; Now are the heavens expressionless and sad: Crisp winter has departed, yet the ...
Oh! oh! the delight of beholding delight!The thing that should be if the world went rightScope for all fitness and ...
PURPLE headland over yonder, Fleecy, sun-extinguished moon,I am here alone, and ponder On the theme of Afternoon.Past has made a groove for ...
BE not discouraged, loved and struggling soul!The light is hazy, and the way is cold;Yet warmth shall come with climbing; ...
AWAY with light!There needs nor sun nor starWhere I and my love are;Away with light!Go, stars, where lives are old!Go, ...
Mad, as the world calls mad, See Anarchy's few;Fighting the False and the Bad In all that they do;Forcing a way for ...
SIX times the sun has hotly litA smoke-wreathed scene of care,To-day the dust of toil is laid,And children are at ...
FOR freedom's sake, farewell. I would not fret youWith a dim sense of bonds about your heart;Be freed of all ...
NOT ye who goad, but ye who lead,My laggard will shall move;I know no right but equity,No road to it ...
WHEN the great universe hung nebulousBetwixt the unprevented and the need,Was it foreseen that you and I should be?--Was it ...
Heart! art thou dead within me? Why this calmTo see thy joy die with the dying year?When more is fact ...
Q.--TELL me, Mother Nature, tell,--What of heaven and what of hell?Who doth ill and who doth well?Tell me, Mother Nature.A.--Well ...
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