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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Lancashire Doxology
    "PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow."
    Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe.
    20 lines
  • Mortality
    "And we shall be changed.""And we shall be changed."
    Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey,
    25 lines
  • The House of Clay
    THERE was a house, a house of clay,
    Wherein the inmate sat all day,
    36 lines
  • Only a Woman
    "She loves with love that cannot tire:
    And if, ah, woe! she loves alone,
    74 lines
  • Resigning
    Children, that lay their pretty garlands by
    So piteously, yet with a humble mind;
    16 lines
  • The Human Temple
    /The Temple in Darkness/
    Darkness broods upon the temple,
    64 lines
  • Green Things Growing
    O the green things growing, the green things growing,
    The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
    20 lines
  • In Our Boat
    Stars trembling o'er us and sunset before us,
    Mountains in shadow and forests asleep;
    16 lines
  • "Philip, My King"
    Look at me with thy large brown eyes,
    Philip, my king!
    36 lines
  • A Sketch
    "Emelie, that fayrer was to seene
    Than is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....
    38 lines
  • A Silly Song
    "O HEART, my heart!" she said, and heard
    His mate the blackbird calling,
    22 lines
  • Cathair Fhargus
    (FERGUS'S SEAT.)
    A mountain in the Island of Arran, the summit of which resembles a gigantic
    95 lines
  • A Child’s Smile
    A CHILD'S smile--nothing more;
    Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen;
    28 lines
  • The Good Of It
    A Cynic's Song.
    SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold,
    38 lines
  • A Psalm For New Year’s Eve
    A FRIEND stands at the door;
    In either tight-closed hand
    46 lines
  • Her Likeness
    A GIRL, who has so many wilful ways
    She would have caused Job's patience to forsake him;
    16 lines
  • Over The Hills And Far Away
    A LITTLE bird flew my window by,
    'Twixt the level street and the level sky,
    26 lines
  • The First Waits
    A MEDITATION FOR ALL.
    SO, Christmas is here again!--
    35 lines
  • Michael The Archangel
    A Statuette.
    36 lines
  • A Ghost At The Dancing
    A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud
    Of butterflies careering in the air--
    46 lines
  • Life Returning
    After War-time.
    O LIFE, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching
    34 lines
  • The Aurora On The Clyde
    AH me, how heavily the night comes down,
    Heavily, heavily:
    62 lines
  • Grace Of Clydeside
    AH, little Grace of the golden locks,
    The hills rise fair on the shores of Clyde.
    34 lines
  • To My Godchild Alice
    ALICE, Alice, little Alice,
    My new-christened baby Alice,
    42 lines
  • The Night Before The Mowing
    ALL shimmering in the morning shine
    And diamonded with dew,
    24 lines
  • For music
    ALONG the shore, along the shore
    I see the wavelets meeting:
    22 lines
  • Constancy In Inconstancy
    An Old Man’s Confession
    SHE has a large still heart--this lady of mine,
    65 lines
  • Four Years
    At the Midsummer, when the hay was down,
    Said I mournful - Though my life be in its prime,
    19 lines
  • Immutable
    AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring,
    Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
    54 lines
  • Looking Death In The face
    AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time.
    The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes
    100 lines
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