Poems

Verses Written In An Alcove NOW the moon-beam’s trembling lustre Silvers o’er the dewy green, And in soft and shadowy colours Sweetly paints the checquer’d scene. […]

Washing-Day —— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. —— The Muses are turned gossips; they have lost The […]

West End Fair Dame Charity one day was tired With nursing of her children three,— So might you be If you had nursed and nursed so […]

What Do The Futures Speak Of? IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THE GREEK GRAMMAR They speak of never-withering shades, And bowers of opening joy; They […]

Where A Crowd Of Pilgrims Toil The world is not their friend, nor the world’s law. Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toil Yon craggy steeps […]

Written On A Marble The world’s something bigger, But just of this figure And speckled with mountains and seas; Your heroes are overgrown schoolboys Who scuffle […]

Father, I Know That All My Life “My times are in Thy hand.” — Psalm XXXI.15 Father, I know that all my life Is portioned out […]

In Heavenly Love Abiding In heavenly love abiding, no change my heart shall fear. And safe in such confiding, for nothing changes here. The storm may […]

My Heart Is Resting, O My Lord My heart is resting, O my God— I will give thanks and sing; My heart is at the secret […]

My Savior, on the Word of Truth My Savior, on the word of truth In earnest hope I live; I ask for all the precious things […]