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  • Lord Nevil's Advice
    "Friend," quoth Lord Nevil, "thou art young
    To face the world, and thou art blind
    80 lines
  • The Resting-Place
    "Because I live, ye shall live also."
    Calmly the Paschal moonlight now is sleeping
    67 lines
  • The Easter Decorations
    O take away your dried and painted garlands!
    The snow-cloth's fallen from each quicken'd brow,
    24 lines
  • The Season
    And must I wear a silken life,
    Hemmed in by city walls?
    64 lines
  • Recollection
    A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping
    A silken mantle o'er its jagged sides;
    40 lines
  • The Coo Of The Cushat
    Over the smooth lawns, broider'd with violets,
    Over the hedges of snow-white thorn,
    40 lines
  • The Candle Of The Lord
    "The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."
    "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God."
    42 lines
  • The Baptistry
    One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound
    Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature's rest,
    64 lines
  • The Dawn
    All the wild waves rock'd in shadow,
    And the world was dim and grey,
    25 lines
  • In Memoriam
    "He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever."
    Life--length of days--the time to work and strive
    57 lines
  • Seed-Time And Harvest
    "Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of
    37 lines
  • Grey
    Is the morning dim and cloudy? Does the wind drift up the leaves?
    Is there mist upon the mountains, where the sun shone yesterday?
    40 lines
  • The Last Battle Of The Cid
    Low he lay upon his dying couch, the knight without a stain,
    The unconquered Cid Campeadór, the bright breastplate of Spain,
    92 lines
  • The Crown Of Thorns
    "And unto Adam He said .... cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thorns .... shall bring it forth."
    "And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns
    54 lines
  • Unstrung
    My skies were blue, and my sun was bright,
    And, with fingers tender and strong and light,
    16 lines
  • The Old Maid's Story
    Ay, many and many a year's gone by,
    Since the dawn of that day in spring,
    36 lines
  • Learn
    Learn, learn, learn,--
    Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep;
    40 lines
  • The Soldier's Grave
    'Twas long ago, in the summer-time,
    On a day as sad as this,
    24 lines
  • The Dawn of God's Sabbath
    The dawn of God’s dear Sabbath
    Breaks o’er the earth again,
    34 lines
  • Tired
    O for wings! that I might soar
    A little way above the floor,
    36 lines
  • Looking In The Fire
    The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough
    Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass.
    35 lines
  • Mirage
    Is it a will-o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking,
    That our horizon wears so strange a hue?
    40 lines
  • The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
    I.
    Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds
    527 lines
  • The Midnight Mass
    An Incident of the French Revolution.
    THE light lay trembling in a silver bar
    109 lines
  • Home-Sick
    O time, great Healer! canst thou still
    The crying hearts that feel the knife?
    40 lines
  • The Night
    Watchman, what of the night?
    See you a streak of light?
    132 lines
  • Practising The Anthem
    A summer wind blows through the open porch,
    And, 'neath the rustling eaves,
    64 lines
  • The Hands That Hang Down
    O Lord, I am so tired!
    My heart is sick and sore.
    24 lines
  • The Vain Question
    Why should we court the storms that rave and rend,
    Safe at our household hearth?
    78 lines
  • The Silence In The Church

    (No. 1.)
    44 lines
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