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 ...
Menella Bute Smedley Poems on Love (35 Poems)
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
The Decree Of Odin (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
The Mother’s Lesson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
The Tournament (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
The Wedding-Ring (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
The Little White Doe (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
In the beautiful forest is strayingAn innocent little white doe,And the creature is happily playingWith the sunlight that flickereth so;The ...
To Foxes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Two children are lost in a wood,What can they do? what can they do?They have not a morsel of food,And ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Grizzel Hume (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
The Wounded Daisy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
The Wives Of Brixham (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A TRUE STORYYou see the gentle water,How silently it floats;How cautiously, how steadily,It moves the sleepy boats;And all the little ...
Ranger (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A little boat in a cave,And a child there fast asleep;Floating out on a wave,Out to the perilous deep-Out to ...
Ampola (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
A Dream Of The War (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Forget-me-nots grow by the stream,Their blue eyes look up to the skies;I think I have seen in a dreamAs blue ...
Puck (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
She is sleeping on the grass,Where her daily footsteps pass;All her errands left undoneAt the bidding of the sun;From the ...
Two Journeys (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Under the straight, still Indian sunWent forth a pompous train,To see some due obeisance doneFor England's name and reign.Gaily the ...
Francis The First At Liberty (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
AFTER THAT SHAMEFUL IMPRISONMENT WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF HIS DEFEAT AT PAVIAI am once more a king!Wave forth my ...
To A Little Girl (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
AGED THREE YEARS AND A HALFDeep in thy round blue eyesAsleep thy spirit lies,Or half-awake and wanton in its play,As ...
The Future (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A figure wanders through my dreamsAnd wears a veil upon its face,Still bending to my breast it seems,Yet ever turns ...
Love In Sorrow (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
What shall I do for thee? Thou hast my prayers,Ceaseless as stars around the great white throne;No passing angel but ...
He Preached To The Spirits In Prison (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Not only in that other world, O friends,Do spirits sigh against their chain!Not only there is long Remembrance vain,And Hope ...
A Character (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with ...
The Singing Lesson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A nightingale made a mistake!She sang a few notes out of tune,Her heart was ready to break,And she hid from ...
What We May See (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Lying in the shadow, looking at the sky,Proud sweet hours glance back at us, smile in passing by;Show us something ...
Morning (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
How pleasant is the morning!How innocent and bright!How pretty and surprisingTo see the sun uprising,A ball of golden light!While sleepy ...
On The Death Of Prince Albert (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Out of a tomb the world's hope went of old,While angels shone around, Force shrank away,And weeping Love, eternally consoled,Went ...
Wishes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
A Prayer For One Beloved (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Father, I bring before Thy throneA heart more dear to me than mine;O! watch it with Thine eyes benign,And take ...
A Child’s Thought (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Little beggar children, with your little ragged dresses,Does love atone for joys unknown by beautiful caresses?Or, do you live in ...