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Lucy Larcom's Poetry, by title

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  • "In Remembrance Of Me."
    WHO could refuse
    The last wish of a friend?
    18 lines
  • "My Cup Runneth Over."
    WHEREFORE drink with me, friends! It is no draught
    Of red intoxication; at its brim
    14 lines
  • "O God, from Thee we would not stray:"
    O God, from Thee we would not stray:
    Reveal to us Thyself, the Way!
    19 lines
  • "Ye Shall Live Also."
    SAY not of thy friend departed,
    "He is dead:" — he is but grown
    16 lines
  • A Canticle Of War (A. N. 1863)
    GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,
    Ever belongs:
    80 lines
  • A Door Opened
    MIGHT a door but be opened in heaven!
    Might we look for a moment within!
    12 lines
  • A Heart's Prayer
    A PRAYER is in my thoughts to-night
    I hardly dare to say:
    29 lines
  • A Loyal Woman's No
    No! is my answer from this cold bleak ridge
    Down to your valley: you may rest you there:
    68 lines
  • A Strip of Blue
    I do not own an inch of land,
      But all I see is mine,—
    76 lines
  • A Thanksgiving
    FOR the wealth of pathless forests,
    Whereon no axe may fall;
    65 lines
  • A White World
    I NEVER knew the world in write
    So beautiful could be
    37 lines
  • A Year In Heaven
    ONE year among the angels, beloved, thou hast been;
    One year has heaven's white portal shut back the sound of sin:
    36 lines
  • Across The River
    WHEN for me the silent oar
    Parts the Silent River,
    54 lines
  • Alive In Thee
    INTO the heaven of Thy heart, O God,
    I lift up my life, like a flower;
    41 lines
  • As A Flower
    OPEN your heart as a flower to the light!
    Darkness is passing; the Sun is in sight;
    16 lines
  • As Strangers And Pilgrims
    As strangers, glad for this good in,
    Where nobler wayfarers have been;
    34 lines
  • At The Beautiful Gate
    LORD, open the door, for I falter,
    I faint in this stifled air;
    56 lines
  • At The Feast
    THIS is not only bread and wine —
    Thy body and Thy blood —
    12 lines
  • At Thy Feet.
    LORD, I would offer Thee
    A heart's untarnished gold,
    26 lines
  • Be Ye Therefore Perfect.
    OH, the beauty and the joy of living
    As the children of our Father, God!
    44 lines
  • Beside The Cross
    JESUS, in Thy death I see
    What Thy life is unto me!
    24 lines
  • Burdened
    No burden ever had I
    That I would not have had;
    33 lines
  • Children’s June Song
    LITTLE ones, let us be happy together
    In this beautiful world of ours!
    24 lines
  • Christ Is Arisen
    VAINLY We make for Thee a grave apart,
    Each in the lonely garden of his heart: —
    28 lines
  • Climbing To Rest
    STILL must I climb, if I would rest:
    The bird soars upward to his nest;
    29 lines
  • Drawing Nearer
    ARE we daily drawing nearer
    Thee, the Perfect, the Unseen?
    72 lines
  • Easter, (Sunrise And Sunset)
    'T IS Easter eve; the day is fading;
    O Thou, with whom there is no death,
    36 lines
  • Elizabeth, E.H.W. September 3, 1864
    A WHITE stone glimmers through the firs,
    The dry grass on her grave-mound stirs;
    42 lines
  • Even As He Is Pure.
    THOU who seest my soul within,
    Thou who knowest my unknown sin,
    34 lines
  • For Larger Lives
    IN heaven, they say, is undisturbed and perfect peace; and yet
    Along our heart-strings, even there, a tremor of regret
    24 lines
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