George MacDonald's Poetry, by title

• A Baby-Sermon

  The lightning and thunder
  They go and they come:

  3 lines, 2 comments
• A Better Thing

  I took it for a bird of prey that soared
  High over ocean, battled mount, and plain;

  8 lines
• A Birth-Day Wish

  Who know thee, love: thy life be such
  That, ere the year be o'er,

  4 lines
• A Book of Dreams: Part I

  1.
  I lay and dreamed. The master came

  291 lines
• A Book of Dreams: Part II

  1.
  Lord of the world's undying youth,

  456 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - April

  LORD, I do choose the higher than my will.
  I would be handled by thy nursing arms

  297 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - August

  SO shall abundant entrance me be given
  Into the truth, my life's inheritance.

  309 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - December

  I AM a little weary of my life—
  Not thy life, blessed Father! Or the blood

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - February

  I TO myself have neither power nor worth,
  Patience nor love, nor anything right good;

  287 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - January

  LORD, what I once had done with youthful might,
  Had I been from the first true to the truth,

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - July

  ALAS, my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!
  Moaning, poor Fancy's doves are swept away.

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - June

  FROM thine, as then, the healing virtue goes
  Into our hearts—that is the Father's plan.

  297 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - March

  THE song birds that come to me night and morn,
  Fly oft away and vanish if I sleep,

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - May

  WHAT though my words glance sideways from the thing
  Which I would utter in thine ear, my sire!

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - November

  THOU art of this world, Christ. Thou know'st it all;
  Thou know'st our evens, our morns, our red and gray;

  299 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - October

  REMEMBER, Lord, thou hast not made me good.
  Or if thou didst, it was so long ago

  307 lines
• A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - September

  WE are a shadow and a shining, we!
  One moment nothing seems but what we see,

  297 lines
• A Broken Prayer

  O Lord, my God, how long
  Shall my poor heart pant for a boundless joy?

  216 lines
• A Christmas Carol

  Babe Jesus lay in Mary's lap,
  The sun shone in his hair;

  20 lines
• A Christmas Carol For 1862

  \The Year Of The Trouble In Lancashire\
  

  49 lines
• A Christmas Prayer

  Loving looks the large-eyed cow,
  Loving stares the long-eared ass

  14 lines, 1 comment
• A Cry

  Lord, hear my discontent: all blank I stand,
  A mirror polished by thy hand;

  28 lines
• A Dead House

  When the clock hath ceased to tick
  Soul-like in the gloomy hall;

  32 lines
• A Dream of Waking

  A child was born in sin and shame,
  Wronged by his very birth,

  56 lines
• A Dream Song

  I dreamed of a song--I heard it sung;
  In the ear of my soul its strange notes rung.

  22 lines
• A Dream-Song

  The stars are spinning their threads,
  And the clouds are the dust that flies,

  16 lines
• A Father To A Mother

  When God's own child came down to earth,
  High heaven was very glad;

  8 lines
• A Fear

  O Mother Earth, I have a fear
  Which I would tell to thee--

  24 lines
• A Hidden Life

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

  1397 lines
• A Lown Nicht

  Rose o' my hert,
  Open yer leaves to the lampin mune;

  20 lines

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