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 ...
Mathilde Blind Poems on Love (46 Poems)
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part III (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I."A CURSE is on this work!" Columba cried;And with their dark robes flapping in the gale,The frightened monks came hurrying ...
The Torrent (Mathilde Blind Poems)
OH torrent, roaring in thy giant fall, And thund'ring grandly o'er th' opposing blocks,Thy voice, far louder than the lion's call, Through ...
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 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 ...
The Mystic’s Vision (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Ah! I shall kill myself with dreams! These dreams that softly lap me round Through trance-like hours in which meseems That I am ...
I Charge You (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I charge you, O winds of the West, O winds with the wings of the dove,That ye blow o'er 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 ...
Question And Answer (Mathilde Blind Poems)
"CAN the soul die, believe you? Because it seems to meMy soul is dead and buried, So still it seems to be."It ...
I Was Again Beside Thee In A Dream (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I was again beside thee in a dream: Earth was so beautiful, the moon was shining;The muffled voice of many a ...
A Sigh (Mathilde Blind Poems)
SILENT, I sat within the boat, The earth and sea were still;The mist wrapped softly, fold on fold, O'er wood, and dale, ...
Sundered Paths (Mathilde Blind Poems)
TWO travellers, worn with sun and rainAnd gropings o'er dim paths unknown,Meet where long separate ways have grownTo one, and ...
In Spring (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THE young birds shy twitter In hedges and bowers,Fields brighten and glitter With dewdrops and flowers.Over flood, over fallow, Impelled by old yearning,The ...
Between Sleep and Waking (Mathilde Blind Poems)
SOFTLY in a dream I heard, Ere the day was breaking,Softly call a cuckoo bird Between sleep and waking.Calling through the rippling ...
Winding All My Life About Thee (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Winding all my life about thee, Let me lay my lips on thine;What is all the world without thee, Mine —oh mine!Let ...
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 ...
My Lady (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Like putting forth upon a sea On which the moonbeams shimmer,Where reefs and unknown perils beTo wreck, yea, wreck one utterly,It ...
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 ...
Love And The Muse (Mathilde Blind Poems)
STRUCK down by Love in cruel mood, That I ever met Love I rued, Bleeding and bruised I lay,Wet was my face ...
The Sleeping Beauty (Mathilde Blind Poems)
There was intoxication in the air; The wind, keen blowing from across the seas, O'er leagues of new-ploughed land and heathery leas,Smelt ...
Untimely Love (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Peace, throbbing heart, nor let us shed one tear O'er this late love's unseasonable glow; Sweet as a violet blooming in the ...
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 ...
Saving Love (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Would we but love what will not pass away! The sun that on each morning shines as clear As when it rose ...
The Robin Redbreast (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The year's grown songless! No glad pipings thrill The hedge-row elms, whose wind-worn branches shower Their leaves on the sere grass, where ...
O Moon (Mathilde Blind Poems)
O moon, large golden summer moon, Hanging between the linden trees, Which in the intermittent breezeBeat with the rhythmic pulse of June!O ...
Why Will You Haunt Me (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Why will you haunt me unawares, And walk into my sleep, Pacing its shadowy thoroughfares,Where long-dried perfume scents the airs, While ghosts of ...