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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's Poetry, by title

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  • "Philip, My King"
    Look at me with thy large brown eyes,
    Philip, my king!
    36 lines
  • "Until Her Death."
    UNTIL her death!" the words read strange yet real,
    Like things afar off suddenly brought near:--
    46 lines
  • "Will Sail Tomorrow."
    THE good ship lies in the crowded dock,
    Fair as a statue, firm as a rock:
    42 lines
  • A Child’s Smile
    A CHILD'S smile--nothing more;
    Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen;
    28 lines
  • A Christmas Carol
    TUNE--"God rest ye, merry gentleman."
    GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay,
    15 lines
  • A Dead Baby
    LITTLE soul, for such brief space that entered
    In this little body straight and chilly,
    33 lines
  • A Dead Sea-Gull
    LACK-LUSTRE eye, and idle wing,
    And smirchèd breast that skims no more,
    33 lines
  • A Dream Of Death
    WHERE shall we sail to-day?"--Thus said, methought,
    A voice that only could be heard in dreams:
    38 lines
  • A Dream Of Resurrection
    SO heavenly beautiful it lay,
    It was less like a human corse
    58 lines
  • A Fable
    SILENT and sunny was the way
    Where Youth and I danced on together:
    42 lines
  • A Flower Of A Day
    OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace
    Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again,
    46 lines
  • A German Student’s Funeral Hymn
    WITH steady march across the daisy meadow,
    And by the churchyard wall we go;
    19 lines
  • A Ghost At The Dancing
    A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed--a colored cloud
    Of butterflies careering in the air--
    46 lines
  • A Hymn For Christmas Morning
    IT is the Christmas time:
    And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
    38 lines
  • A Lancashire Doxology
    "PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow."
    Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe.
    20 lines
  • A Living Picture
    No, I'll not say your name. I have said it now,
    As you mine, first in childish treble, then
    53 lines
  • A Man’s Wooing
    YOU said, last night, you did not think
    In all the world of men
    133 lines
  • A Marriage-Table
    THERE was a marriage-table where One sate,
    Haply, unnoticed, till they craved His aid:
    13 lines
  • A Psalm For New Year’s Eve
    A FRIEND stands at the door;
    In either tight-closed hand
    46 lines
  • A Question
    SOUL, spirit, genius--which thou art--that whence
    I know not, rose upon this mortal frame
    32 lines
  • A Rejected Lover
    You "never loved me," Ada. These slow words
    Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue
    30 lines
  • A Silly Song
    "O HEART, my heart!" she said, and heard
    His mate the blackbird calling,
    22 lines
  • A Sketch
    "Emelie, that fayrer was to seene
    Than is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....
    38 lines
  • A Spirit Present
    IF, coming from that unknown sphere
    Where I believe thou art,--
    34 lines
  • A Stream’s Singing
    O HOW beautiful is Morning!
    How the sunbeams strike the daisies,
    43 lines
  • A True Hero
    JAMES BRAIDWOOD: Died June 22, 1861.
    NOT at the battle front,--writ of in story;
    33 lines
  • A Valentine
    YE are twa laddies unco gleg,
    An' blithe an' bonnie:
    54 lines
  • A Winter Walk
    WE never had believed, I wis,
    At primrose time when west winds stole
    43 lines
  • A Word In Season
    THIS is a day the Lord hath made."--Thus spake
    The good religious heart, unstained, unworn,
    13 lines
  • After Sunset
    REST--rest--four little letters, one short word,
    Enfolding an infinitude of bliss--
    43 lines
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