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 ...
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 ...
A SONG.UP the dewy slopes of morningFollow me;Every smoky spy-glass scorning,Look and see, look and seeHow the simple sun is ...
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 ...
Oh! oh! the delight of beholding delight!The thing that should be if the world went rightScope for all fitness and ...
"Dreamers?" Ah, no! else he was a dreamer, Our crucified brother of long, long ago;Arrested, and jeered at; "seditious;" "blasphemer;" And legally ...
Are you cold, or are you lukewarm You may freely have your say;When we've time we'll read your musings, But 'tis daring ...
A SWEET white flower peepedUp from a glade,Laughingly tossed its bellTo the breeze that played,Shrinkingly drooped and fell;--Why did it ...
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 ...
Peace on our earth! Men reconciled To Law that bids them be;O holy freedom! final faith! O sacred certainty!I sometimes think the ...
'TIS the marvel of existence,This great patience feeding things,Till at last in myriad agesWakes there one who sees and sings.Through ...
NO theme for song--you say--the strength of man?Only his tyrant passion? Man, the slave,Fit theme for hymning? Never man, the ...
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