Poems

The Vulgar Little Lady “But, mamma, now, ” said Charlotte, “pray, don’t you believe That I’m better than Jenny, my nurse? Only see my red shoes, […]

The Washing and Dressing Ah! why will my dear little girl be so cross, And cry, and look sulky, and pout? To lose her sweet smile […]

To a Little Girl That Has Told a Lie And has my darling told a lie? Did she forget that GOD was by? That GOD, who […]

“To Indifference” INDIFFERENCE come! thy torpid juices shed On my keen sense: plunge deep my wounded heart, In thickest apathy, till it congeal, Or mix with […]

Crucifix Do not cry for me, Mother, seeing me in the grave. I This greatest hour was hallowed and thandered By angel’s choirs; fire melted sky. […]

Departure Although this land is not my own, I will remember its inland sea and the waters that are so cold the sand as white as […]

How can you bear to look at the Neva? How can you bear to look at the Neva? How can you bear to cross the bridges?. […]

I Don’t Know If You’re Alive Or Dead I don’t know if you’re alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the […]

I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice, And the rich summer’s welcome loss I hear In the sickle’s serpentine hiss Cutting […]

I Taught Myself to Live Simply I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander […]