The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part I (Mathilde Blind Poems)
"Earth, earth on the mouth of Oran, that he may blab no more." Gaelic Proverb. I.THE storm had ceased to rave: ...
Mathilde Blind Poems on Light (34 Poems)
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part II (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.THERE was a windless mere, on whose smooth breastA little island, flushed with purple bloom,Lay gently cradled like a moorhen's ...
To Hope (Mathilde Blind Poems)
OH come, thou power divine, Thou lovely spirit with the wings of light,And let thy dewy eyesShed their sweet influences on ...
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part IV (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.It is the night: across the starless wasteOf silent heaven the solitary moonFlits like a frightened maid who flies in ...
Echoes Of Spring (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.I WALK about in driving snow, And drizzling rain, splashed o'er and o'er;No sign that radiant spring e'en now Stands at the ...
Aspirations (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.I SAW thee in the streets, so wan and pale; My heart, it shivered at the saddening sight;Like a thin cloud ...
Renunciation (Mathilde Blind Poems)
When ich Dich liebe was geht es Dich an?I.THE air is full of the peal of bells,The rhythmical pealing of ...
The Wind (Mathilde Blind Poems)
ACROSS the barren moors the wild, wild windWent sweeping on, and with his sobs and shrieksFilled the still night, and ...
The Street-Children’s Dance (Mathilde Blind Poems)
NOW the earth in fields and hillsStirs with pulses of the Spring,Next-embowering hedges ringWith interminable trills;Sunlight runs a race with ...
The Abandoned (Mathilde Blind Poems)
SHE sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white,Lay wasted and withered and sere, like her ...
Love-Trilogy (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.SHE stood against the Orient sun,Her face inscrutable for light;A myriad larks in unisonSang o'er her, soaring out of sight.A ...
The Mirror Of Diana (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Popular Name for Lake Nemi.SHE floats into the quiet skies, Where, in the circle of hills, Her immemorial mirror fillsWith light, as ...
Hymn To Horus (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Hail, God revived in glory! The night is over and done;Far mountains wrinkled and hoary,Fair cities great in story, Flash in the ...
A Fantasy (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I was an Arab, I loved my horse;Swift as an arrow He swept the course.Sweet as a lamb He came to hand;He was ...
On A Torso Of Cupid (Mathilde Blind Poems)
PEACH trees and Judas trees, Poppies and roses,Purple anemones In garden closes!Lost in the limpid sky,Shrills a gay lark on high;Lost in ...
As Many Stars (Mathilde Blind Poems)
AS many stars as are aglow Deep in the hollows of the nightAs many as the flowers that blow Beneath the kindling ...
The New Proserpine (Mathilde Blind Poems)
WHERE, countless as the stars of night, The daisies made a milky wayAcross fresh lawns, and flecked with light, Old Ilex groves ...
She Stood Against The Orient Sun (Mathilde Blind Poems)
She stood against the Orient sun,Her face inscrutable for light;A myriad larks in unisonSang o'er her, soaring out of sight.A ...
Ave Maria In Rome (Mathilde Blind Poems)
FAR away dim violet mountains Fade away from sight;Flashing from fantastic fountains, Jets the liquid light,Where from Nymph's or Triton's lipBubbling waters ...
Evensong (Mathilde Blind Poems)
(Holy Trinity Church.)THE hectic autumn's dilatory fire Has turned this lime tree to a sevenfold brand, Which, self consuming, lights the sunless ...
The Red Sunsets II, 1883 (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THE boding sky was charactered with cloud, The scripture of the storm--but high in air, Where the unfathomed zenith still was bare,A ...
Heart’s-Ease (Mathilde Blind Poems)
As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights, As light to flowers, as flowers in poor men's rooms, As to the fisher ...
On The Lighthouse At Antibes (Mathilde Blind Poems)
A stormy light of sunset glows and glares Between two banks of cloud, and o'er the brine Thy fair lamp on the ...
The Agnostic (Mathilde Blind Poems)
NOT in the hour of peril, thronged with foes, Panting to set their heel upon my head,-- Or when alone from many ...
A Winter Landscape (Mathilde Blind Poems)
All night, all day, in dizzy, downward flight, Fell the wild-whirling, vague, chaotic snow, Till every landmark of the earth below,Trees, moorlands, ...
Mourning Women (Mathilde Blind Poems)
All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight, Crouching together in the jolting cart, What forms are these that pass alone, ...
On Guido’s Aurora (Mathilde Blind Poems)
GLORIOUS, in saffron robes and veil unfurled, Borne on the wind of her ecstatic flight, Aurora floats before the Lord of Light,And ...
The Red Sunsets I, 1883 (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The twilight heavens are flushed with gathering light, And o'er wet roofs and huddling streets below Hang with a strange Apocalyptic glowOn ...
A Symbol (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Hurrying for ever in their restless flight The generations of earth's teeming womb Rise into being and lapse into the tombLike transient ...
Sometimes I Wonder (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Sometimes I wonder if you guessThe deep impassioned tenderness Which overflows my heart;The love I never dare confess;Yet hard, yea, harder ...