Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Muriel Stuart's Poetry, by title

1 - 30 of 50     1 2  next >
  • A Chicot
    IN days of ancient history
    Who were you? Tell me if you know.
    44 lines
  • A Song for Old Love
          There shall be a song for both of us that day
          Though fools say you have long outlived your
    17 lines
  • After
    WHEN, on an empty night in later years
    Thou ponderest over sorrowful sweet things,
    14 lines
  • Andromeda Unfettered
    ANDROMEDA.
    Chained to the years by the measureless wrong of man,
    441 lines
  • Annunciation
    "The lord appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and behold, the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed."-
    30 lines
  • At a Life's End
    COME here, rekindle the old fire,
    This last night leave no lamp unlit!
    51 lines
  • Ave et Vale
    FAREWELL is said! Yea, but I cannot take
    All that my Greeting gave.
    42 lines
  • Boys Bathing
          Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noon
          Heaves with crushed lips and glowing sides
    74 lines
  • Change
    CHANGE shall accustom me in after years
    To kingdom's builded on life's overthrow;
    14 lines
  • Christ at Carnival
    THE hand of carnival was at my door,
    I listened to its knocking, and sped down:
    429 lines
  • Enough
    Did he forget? . . . I do not remember,
    All I had of him once I still have to-day;
    8 lines
  • For Fasting Days
    Are you my songs, importunate of praise?
    Be still, remember for your comforting
    15 lines
  • Forgiveness
    ASK not my pardon! For if one hath need
    Once to forgive the god that he hath raised,
    15 lines
  • Forgotten Dead, I Salute You
    Dawn has flashed up the startled skies,
    Night has gone out beneath the hill
    52 lines
  • In Memory Of Douglas Vernon Cow
    THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.
          To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.
    83 lines
  • In Praise of Mandragora
    O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praise
    Of life, and death, and immortality,--
    86 lines
  • In the Orchard
    'I thought you loved me.' 'No, it was only fun.'
    'When we stood there, closer than all?' 'Well, the harvest moon
    38 lines, 1 comment
  • Lady Hamilton
    Men wondered why I loved you, and none guessed
    How sweet your slow, divine stupidity,
    13 lines
  • Leda
    Do you remember, Leda?
    There are those who love, to whom Love brings
    70 lines
  • Madala Goes By The Orphanage
    Unaware of its terror,
    And but half aware
    97 lines
  • Man and his Makers
    I am one of the wind's stories,
    I am a fancy of the rain,—
    28 lines
  • Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song
    I am growing old: I have kept youth too long,
    But I dare not let them know it now.
    123 lines, 1 comment
  • Now
    TAKE as you will, slake, solace, and possess
    While Youth, with laughter, scatters tears that fall
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Obsession
    I will not have roses in my room again,
    Nor listen to sonnets of Michael Angelo
    8 lines
  • Possession
    MOST blessed one, how can I let thee go?
    Canst thou forswear the nightingale its tune--
    14 lines
  • Shrift
    I am not true, but you would pardon this
    If you could see the tortured spirit take
    14 lines
  • Sic Transit
    "What did she leave?" . . .
    Only these hungry miser-words, poor heart!
    6 lines
  • The Balcony
    A STREET at night, a silent square
    That mirth forbids;
    16 lines
  • The Bellman
    BRING out your dead before you reap
    From lips beloved infection dread;
    11 lines
  • The Chalice of Circe
    DRINK of our Cup--of the red wine that burns in it,
    All the wild shames that have crusted its mouth,
    51 lines
1 - 30 of 50     1 2  next >