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Ada Cambridge's Poetry, by title

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  • "After Our Likeness"
    Before me now a little picture lies—
        A little shadow of a childish face,
    53 lines
  • "This Enlightened Age"
    A Meditation in the British Museum.
    I say it to myself--in meekest awe
    63 lines
  • A Dream Of Venice
    Numb, half asleep, and dazed with whirl of wheels,
    And gasp of steam, and measured clank of chains,
    424 lines
  • A Prayer
    Spirit and Breath of Life, whate'er Thy name!
    Bear with Thy creature, Man,
    36 lines
  • A Sermon
    Midsummer, 1867.
    We have heard many sermons, you and I,
    74 lines
  • A Sigh In The Night
    O sweet darkness, still, and calm, and lonely!
    Spread thy downy pinions round about.
    16 lines
  • A Story At Dusk
    An evening all aglow with summer light
    And autumn colour--fairest of the year.
    399 lines
  • Advent Hymn
    Another mile--a year
    Pass'd by for ever! And the warnings swell
    44 lines
  • All-Saints' Day (1867)
    Blessed are they whose baby-souls are bright,
    Whose brows are sealèd with the cross of light,
    44 lines
  • All-Saints' Day (1868)
    "But they are at peace."
    Never to weary more, nor suffer sorrow,--
    33 lines
  • An Anniversary
    I.
    AS flower to sun its drop of dew
    129 lines
  • An Old Doll
    Low on her little stool she sits
    To make a nursing lap,
    72 lines
  • At Long Last
    Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained,
    The Heart's Desire fulfilled, Love's guerdon gained.
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • At Sea
    When the investing darkness growls,
    And deep reverberates to deep;
    63 lines
  • Aunt Dorothy's Lecture
    Come, go and practise--get your work--
    Do something, Nelly, pray.
    96 lines
  • Autumn.
    So still--so still! Only the endless sighing
    Of sad Æolian harp-notes overhead;
    42 lines
  • Awake
    Calm as that moonbeam on the wall,
    Sleep broods on baby's eyes;
    32 lines
  • By A Norfolk Broad
    One hour ago the crimson sun, that seemed so long a-drowning, sank.
    The summer day is all but done. Our boat is moored beneath the b
    78 lines
  • By The Camp Fire
    Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide;
    The purple hill-tops, one by one, were strangely lit and glorified;
    57 lines
  • Contentment
    Is it a virtue, as the sages say,
    The "trivial round and common task" to ply,
    14 lines
  • Craven-Heart
    Those anguished voices in the air!
    Oh, I could shriek and tear my hair
    15 lines, 6 comments
  • Dawnlight On The Sea
    When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking;
    Sleep fetters still the brown wings of the lark;
    40 lines
  • Dead
    "On board the Petrel, in St. Lucia's bay,
    Of yellow fever--aged twenty-nine."
    97 lines
  • Desire
    Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill
    The young blood, running wildly, as it must;
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Despair
    Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near!
    No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
    14 lines
  • Drunk
    The filthy beast! And is he here again,
    With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet,
    14 lines
  • Empty
    Can this be my poem?--this poor fragment
    Of bald thought in meanest language dressed!
    48 lines
  • Evensong
    The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly
    The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light
    36 lines
  • Faith
    And is the great cause lost beyond recall?
    Have all the hopes of ages come to naught?
    14 lines
  • Fashion
    See those resplendent creatures, as they glide
    O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall,
    15 lines
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