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 ...
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
Two children are lost in a wood,What can they do? what can they do?They have not a morsel of food,And ...
The clear eye of morning was cloudless and blue,And the air was all fresh with the fragrance of dew,And the ...
Forget-me-nots grow by the stream,Their blue eyes look up to the skies;I think I have seen in a dreamAs blue ...
Come about the meadow,Hunt here and there,Where's Mother's thimble?Can you tell where?Jane saw her wearing it,Fan saw it fall,Ned isn't ...
"Odin hath spoken! The king of heavenAnswer dark to my prayer hath given;Odin hath spoken a fearful thing,-Hear, O people! ...
AFTER THAT SHAMEFUL IMPRISONMENT WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF HIS DEFEAT AT PAVIAI am once more a king!Wave forth my ...
Not only in that other world, O friends,Do spirits sigh against their chain!Not only there is long Remembrance vain,And Hope ...
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with ...
Across the moon the beech-tree weavesAn airy mystery of leaves,The lights which through that covert passGlisten like rain-drops on the ...
We faint beneath this burning sky,Upon this barren steep,O! give us dew before we die,Give but an hour of sleep!We ...
An Angel came and cried to him by night,'God needs a Martyr from your little band;Name me the purest soul, ...
Not by thy side, but in thy heart'Tis mine to dwell;We scorn to utter when we partThat feeble word, "Farewell."Lift ...
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