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 ...
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
Now this is very serious, and should be understoodHere is a moral being that is influenced by food!For everything I ...
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 ...
O YE joys that none have chanced on!O ye goals that none have sought!O ye gulfs of vacant etherWhere no ...
AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS.WHAT blesses yet is difficult,This--goodness: worship, the result.What man doth worship man doth love,And what he loveth ...
TILL the mist passes, and ye can descryWhy hearts for ages loved the love-shed bloodOf a pure Christ, and praised ...
YOU ask me where love fails me?--what I hate?I cannot blame, for all, I hold, is fate;Yet there are hateful, ...
DEAR, winding glens of Merle Wood! deep in flowers,That speak the mood of peaceful, patient hours,When human tenderness for nature's ...
I SPEAK to women--woman I;I speak to one more heart beside;Whatever sin may e'er betide,But one sin damneth utterly.If you ...
SIX times the sun has hotly litA smoke-wreathed scene of care,To-day the dust of toil is laid,And children are at ...
HOW do I know you good?--my dear, my dear,How do I know?Because, at thought of you the bonds fall offThat ...
Love's uttermost knows neither depth nor height But soars or stoops unwittingly, for stress Of mere dear love, importunate to blessAnd see ...
'TIS the marvel of existence,This great patience feeding things,Till at last in myriad agesWakes there one who sees and sings.Through ...
NOT ye who goad, but ye who lead,My laggard will shall move;I know no right but equity,No road to it ...
MY love, despise not love in your high thought;For see what weakness finds the power to doHere in my failing ...
POOR Lisa! Oft her folly has been sung,Of how she saw, and needs must love, a king,And make him know ...
WHEN the great universe hung nebulousBetwixt the unprevented and the need,Was it foreseen that you and I should be?--Was it ...
LOVE'S height is easy scaling; skies allure;Who feels the day-warmth needs must find it fair;Strong eagles ride the lofty sunlit ...
LOVE'S name is easy saying; yet who knowsLove's uttermost, who loves not in his loveThe highest he has known, and ...
THE QUESTION.WILL you have me gold or steel,Love, whose crucible is here?Will you have me brave, or feelFate's anguish, dear?Am ...
THROUGH the fathomless peace of the starlight,Through the feverish travail of mind,Through the love of the live heart within me,I ...
I'VE closed my book of hope, love,And folded down the page;I'll read no more therein, love,Until some quiet ageWhen paler ...
WHO shall tell the song its value:Critic ear, or heart of friend?Who shall weigh your love's completeness?Who shall test the ...
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 ...
Half prayed, and half commanded--Let there be light!Light, where waits one undaunted,Blind with fight;Light, where the lion-heartedLies in night.Light from ...
OUR world is very little in the sky,Far off she must be just a mote to see;And on the tiny ...
FEAR hath torment! Hie thee, FearI am safe, for love is here.Give me courage; I am weak,Darling, till I hear ...
FEAR hath torment. Love, away!I'm afraid of you to-day.Love, your voice I dare not hear,'Tis so infinitely dear.Love, I do ...
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