Mary Webb Poems on Night Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

The doves that coo in ColomenAre never heard by mortal men,But when a human creature passesUnderneath the churchyard grasses,In deep ...

Who came so close then?--Brushed the wet lilac into mellow laughter;Set the smooth blackbird at his golden weavingMaking no stir ...

The scarlet-jewelled ashtree sighed - 'He cometh,For whom no wine is poured and no bee hummeth.'The huddled bean-sheaves under the ...

Oh, Powers of Love, if still you leanAbove a world so black with hate,Where yet--as it has ever been--The loving ...

So here is come the night of nights!On every pine a star is kindled.Too slowly cumbrous summer dwindled;But now the ...

By this low rock pool, dark and sweet,Where panting Summer cools her feet,No creature stirs, except the leavesThat sometimes glide ...

When on my merry garden cold fogs riseAnd from these golden trees the blossoms fall;When in the hollow, painted morning ...

When the blue summer nightIs short and safe and light,How should the starlings any more rememberThe fearful, trembling times of ...

I will say good-bye to morning, with her eyesOf gold, her shell-pale robe and crocus-crown.Once her green veils enmeshed me, ...

How short a while--eternities gone by--It is since book and candle, half the night,Consumed the hours, and in the first ...

The moon, beyond her violet bars,From towering heights of thunder-cloud,Sheds calm upon our scarlet wars,To soothe a world so small, ...

Soon amid the inviolable placesWill green, rustling steeples chime againWith the sweet, glassy bell-notes of the wren.Soon the plain shall ...

The birds will sing when I am goneTo stranger-folk with stranger-ways.Without a break they'll whistle onIn close and flowery orchard ...

Poor little traveller, lost in night!God made a miracle, I know,To give you life--tears and delight,And ecstasy and ancient woe.Yet ...

Mary Webb Poems on Night (14 Poems)