A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
Word was brought where Cortes layOn the shores of Coronzel,That, pent from the blessed light of dayAnd the free breath ...
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
O, were you at war in the red Eastern land?What did you hear, and what did you see?Saw you my ...
"What's the use of fairies?" said the child,"What's the use of fairies at all?The weeds in my garden grow wild,And ...
Where were you when I suffered? My heart was very faint;It wanted a heart to lean on; where was yours ...
A little boat in a cave,And a child there fast asleep;Floating out on a wave,Out to the perilous deep-Out to ...
White Angels, listening all aroundThe terror, wrath, and strife of men,For faint heroic notes that soundThrough the mean tumult now ...
Forget-me-nots grow by the stream,Their blue eyes look up to the skies;I think I have seen in a dreamAs blue ...
When the ship is but a speckTo the landsman's feeble eye,Sailors, lying on the deck,Feel at home with sea and ...
AFTER THAT SHAMEFUL IMPRISONMENT WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF HIS DEFEAT AT PAVIAI am once more a king!Wave forth my ...
A figure wanders through my dreamsAnd wears a veil upon its face,Still bending to my breast it seems,Yet ever turns ...
Across the moon the beech-tree weavesAn airy mystery of leaves,The lights which through that covert passGlisten like rain-drops on the ...
A child is lying fast asleepDown where the lilies grow,And the lilies nod and peep,Quite pleased to have him so.And ...
Bird, are you singing to me,Perch'd on my own window-sill?Can you, in your little brain,Knowledge have and thought retain,That I ...
What saith the Past to thee? Weep!Truth is departed!Beauty hath died like the dream of a sleep,Love is faint-hearted.Trifles of ...
The children crown'd themselves with roses,And all the roses died!Pale on the soft brown locks they lay,Like a dream of ...
Other thoughts have parted meFrom thy tender memory;Spaces like a cloudy seaLie between mine eyes and thee.Buried sunsets heave and ...
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