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 (113 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Desert (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast, Eternal as the Sea;What lacks the tidal sea thou hast— Profound stability.Beneath the sun that burns and brands In hushed ...
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 ...
Invocation (Mathilde Blind Poems)
JUNE, 1866.BREATHE thro' me in music, Spirit of the time!Pregnant with the future, Spirit of the time!As the west wind sougheth, Through the ...
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 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 ...
The Sower (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The winds had hushed at last as by command;The quiet sky above,With its grey clouds spread oer the fallow land,Sat ...
Spring In The Alps (Mathilde Blind Poems)
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals Among the lusty green;Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz With Marguerite for queen.Birds join in glees and ...
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 ...
When You Wake (Mathilde Blind Poems)
When you wake from troubled slumbers With a dream-bewildered brain,And old leaves which no man numbers Chattering tap against the pane;And the ...
Entangled (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I STOOD as one enchanted, All in the forest deep:As one that wond'ring wanders, Dream-bound within his sleep.A thousand rustling footsteps Pattered upon ...