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 ...
(SIX SONNETS.)I.SOUL, who would'st prove and know thyself for strong,Soul, who hast not a tyrant sin beside,Masked at thine elbow ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
I EVER said that I could pay high tollFor some dear sake held worthy, utterly;It was the very hidden pride ...
WHY on a day, half unawares and swift,Rent I the silence-veil 'twixt soul and soul?And flung down recklessly the very ...
OUR oneness is the wrestlers', fierce and close,Thrusting and thrust;One life in dual effort for one prize,--We fight, and must;For ...
THE ANSWER.I HAVE asked, and you have answered:--Be the cunning work fulfilled,Be the soul that's tried by fireTender-hearted, warrior-willed.Steel for ...
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