A Book of Women's VerseSir John Collings Squire Clarendon Press, 1921 - 191 ページ |
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bless bonnie breast breath bright Brontë Charlotte Brontë charms Christina Rossetti Cusha dark dead dear death delight DORA SIGERSON SHORTER dost doth dream Dyce Elizabeth Emily Brontë eyes face fair fame FANNY GREVILLE fate fear feel flowers glory gone grief hand hast hath hear heart heart's licht heaven honour hour J. C. SQUIRE KATHERINE PHILIPS Lady leal look Lord love thee Mary Mary Leapor Mary Masters MARY MOLLINEUX MOIRA O'NEILL morning mourn Muse ne'er never night o'er Orinda pain passion poems poetesses poets rest rose round scorn shadow shine sigh silent sing sleep smile soft Song soul strong SUSANNA BLAMIRE sweet SYLVIA LYND tears thine things thou art thought Thro twas uppe verse weep werena my heart's Whilst wind woman women write young
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134 ページ - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
xiii ページ - Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.
128 ページ - Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave?
129 ページ - Then did I check the tears of useless passion — Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine ; Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten Down to that tomb already more than mine. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain ; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
70 ページ - I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me 'sa secret yet.
102 ページ - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
157 ページ - And didst thou visit him no more ? Thou didst, thou didst, my daughter deare ; The waters laid thee at his doore, Ere yet the early dawn was clear. Thy pretty bairns in fast embrace, The lifted sun shone on thy face, Downe drifted to thy dwelling-place. That...
106 ページ - Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, To laugh as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man : The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, — For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river.
145 ページ - O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies, Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth Of all that irked her from the hour of birth; With stillness that is almost Paradise.
97 ページ - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.