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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I lived from 1826-1887. I was from England, and am in the English category.

Born Dinah Maria Mulock at Longfield Cottage, Hartshill, Stoke-upon-Trent in 1826. Her father was a Nonconformist clergyman. She wrote poetry from an early age and helped her mother teach in a small school.

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  • Green Things Growing
    O the green things growing, the green things growing,
    The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
    20 lines
  • Only a Woman
    "She loves with love that cannot tire:
    And if, ah, woe! she loves alone,
    74 lines
  • "Philip, My King"
    Look at me with thy large brown eyes,
    Philip, my king!
    36 lines
  • The Human Temple
    /The Temple in Darkness/
    Darkness broods upon the temple,
    64 lines
  • Mortality
    "And we shall be changed.""And we shall be changed."
    Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey,
    25 lines
  • Resigning
    Children, that lay their pretty garlands by
    So piteously, yet with a humble mind;
    16 lines
  • In Our Boat
    Stars trembling o'er us and sunset before us,
    Mountains in shadow and forests asleep;
    16 lines
  • The House of Clay
    THERE was a house, a house of clay,
    Wherein the inmate sat all day,
    36 lines
  • A Lancashire Doxology
    "PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow."
    Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe.
    20 lines
  • Too Late "Dowglas, Dowglas, Tendir And Treu"
    Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,
    In the old likeness that I knew,
    19 lines
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