The After-Glow (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Suspicion's playful counterfeitBegot your question strange:The only thing that I forgetIs that there's any change.Did that long blight which fell ...
Suspicion's playful counterfeitBegot your question strange:The only thing that I forgetIs that there's any change.Did that long blight which fell ...
Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send,Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:Not with those ...
My God, or thine? -- or God of each and both?My God, say you? Then let me not be loathTo ...
HOW long, pale Sickness! shall Rosina dwell, Slow languishing, thy captive, sport, and prey?Why make so sweet a breast ...
Accept this building, gracious Lord,No temple though it be;We raised it for our suffering kin,And so, Good Lord, for Thee.Accept ...
Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gateIs all ...
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
TO-DAY , when compliments are flying,Each wishing each "a good new year,"Kind Madam, ever most complying,Lend the poor Bard your ...
Talk happiness. The world is sad enoughWithout your woes. No path is wholly rough;Look for the places that are smooth ...
HE struck me! A man I scarce knew, 'though he had my name, Came into my office repeating the same, ...
O! TRULY welcome to thy native land,Thou first in glory mid her warlike band;What shouts of triumph bade her shores ...
I have been young, and now am not too old;And I have seen the righteous forsaken,His health, his honour and ...
To AYOUNG LADY IN AFFLICTION,WHO THOUGHT SHE SHOULD NEVER MORE BE HAPPY; WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE. Yes, thou shalt smile ...
I like 'em, in the winter when their cheeks are slightly pale,I like 'em in the spring time when the ...
588I cried at Pity-not at Pain-I heard a Woman say"Poor Child"-and something in her voiceConvicted me-of me-So long I fainted, ...
COME ! rosy Health, with smiling face!Thou chiefest gift to human race--Tinge with thy glow my pallid cheek,And brace my ...
OH, you laughing little fellow, with your eyes agleam with fun, And your golden curls a-mockin' all the splendor of ...
I am wearing away like the snow in the sun,I am wearing away from the pain in my heart;But ne'er ...
YES, thou art changed since first we met,But think not I shall e'er regret,Though never can my heart forget, ...
Troubles? Sure I've lots of them, Got 'em heaped up by the score, Got 'em baled and bundled up, Got ...
Yes! there was one that loved thee - years that stealIn swift succession from this changing scene,Cannot efface thine image; ...
Here much and little shift and change,With scale of need and time;There more and less have meanings strange,Which the world ...
Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way;Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile from ...
Jesus, we look to Thee,Thy promised presence claim;Thou in the midst of us shall be,Assembled in Thy Name.Thy Name salvation ...
My wife lost her health,And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.Then that woman, whom the menStyled Cleopatra, came along.And ...
TUNE--"LASS O' PATIE'S MILL." SWEET lass of Aberdeen,Let me not sue in vain,My proffers long have beenRejected with disdain:Let me ...
Whither, whither, wearied dove,Wilt thou fly to seek thy rest?Beat with many a heavy storm,Where repose thy tender breast?Hither, hither, ...
If Thou, dear Lord, art mine,If I indeed am Thine,Send down Thy holy lightAnd banish all my night.My constant, welcome ...
Death! Thy cold hand the brightest flower has chill'd, That e'er suffused love's cheek with rosy dies; Quench'd the soft ...
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