George MacDonald's Poetry, by first line

• Far and Near

  \The fact which suggested this poem is related by Clarke in his Travels.\
  

  49 lines
• My Room

  To G.E.M.
  

  297 lines
• The Man of Songs

  "Thou wanderest in the land of dreams,
  O man of many songs!

  12 lines
• Song

  I was very cold
  In the summer weather;

  24 lines
• A Hidden Life

  Proudly the youth, by manhood sudden crowned,
  Went walking by his horses to the plough,

  1397 lines
• The Homeless Ghost

  Still flowed the music, flowed the wine.
  The youth in silence went;

  213 lines
• Abu Midjan

  "It is only just
  To laud good wine:

  276 lines
• Legend of The Corrievrechan

  Prince Breacan of Denmark was lord of the strand
  And lord of the billowy sea;

  76 lines
• A Book of Dreams: Part I

  1.
  I lay and dreamed. The master came

  291 lines
• Better Things

  Better to smell the violet
  Than sip the glowing wine;

  36 lines
• A Book of Dreams: Part II

  1.
  Lord of the world's undying youth,

  456 lines
• Within and Without: Part I: A Dramatic Poem

  \What life it is, and how that all these lives do gather--
  With outward maker's force, or like an inward father.\

  746 lines
• Within and Without: Part II: A Dramatic Poem

  Hark, hark, a voice amid the quiet intense!
  It is thy Duty waiting thee without.

  1194 lines
• Within and Without: Part III: A Dramatic Poem

  And weep not, though the Beautiful decay
  Within thy heart, as daily in thine eyes;

  1120 lines
• Song of the Innocents

  Merry, merry we well may be,
  For Jesus Christ is come down to see:

  10 lines
• Christmas Day and Every Day

  Star high,
  Baby low:

  8 lines
• The Children's Heaven

  The infant lies in blessed ease
  Upon his mother's breast;

  48 lines
• Rejoice

  "Rejoice," said the Sun; "I will make thee gay
  With glory and gladness and holiday;

  28 lines
• The Grace of Grace

  Had I the grace to win the grace
  Of some old man in lore complete,

  16 lines
• Antiphon

  Daylight fades away.
  Is the Lord at hand

  48 lines
• Dorcas

  If I might guess, then guess I would
  That, mid the gathered folk,

  24 lines
• Marriage Songs

  "They have no more wine!" she said.
  But they had enough of bread;

  30 lines
• Blind Bartimeus

  As Jesus went into Jericho town,
  Twas darkness all, from toe to crown,

  24 lines
• Come Unto Me

  Come unto me, the Master says:--
  But how? I am not good;

  28 lines
• Morning Hymn

  O Lord of life, thy quickening voice
  Awakes my morning song!

  24 lines
• Noontide Hymn

  I love thy skies, thy sunny mists,
  Thy fields, thy mountains hoar,

  16 lines
• Evening Hymn

  O God, whose daylight leadeth down
  Into the sunless way,

  16 lines
• The Holy Midnight

  Ah, holy midnight of the soul,
  When stars alone are high;

  12 lines
• Christmas Prayer

  Cold my heart, and poor, and low,
  Like thy stable in the rock;

  8 lines
• The Three Horses

  What shall I be?--I will be a knight
  Walled up in armour black,

  192 lines

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