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 Night (27 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 ...
Ode To A Child (Mathilde Blind Poems)
BRIGHT as a morn of spring,That jubilates along the earth,With clouds, and winds, and flowers rejoicing,And all the creatures that ...
The Orange-Peel In The Gutter (Mathilde Blind Poems)
BEHOLD, unto myself I said,This place how dull and desolate,For lovely thoughts how all unmeet,This drear and darksome London street.Above, ...
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 ...
The Tombs Of The Kings (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns ...
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 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 ...
Prelude (Mathilde Blind Poems)
What a twitter! what a tumult! what a whirr of wheeling wings!Birds of Passage hear the message which the Equinoctial ...
Perfect Union (Mathilde Blind Poems)
W.K.C.--3rd MARCH, 1879."A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death; and his wisdom is a meditation, not ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Christmas Eve (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Alone—with one fair star for company,The loveliest star among the hosts of night,While the grey tide ebbs with the ebbing ...
A Parting (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The year is on the wing, my love, With tearful days and nights;The clouds are on the wing above With gathering swallow-flights.The ...
I Planted A Rose Tree (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I planted a rose tree in my garden, In early days when the year was young;I thought it would bear me ...