From Queens' Gardens: Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Adelaide A. Procter, Christina Rossetti, and OthersJ. Knight Company, 1888 - 216 pages |
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... glory . O Thou God of old ! Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these : - But so much patience , as a blade of grass Grows by , contented through the heat and cold . I CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON . THINK we are too ready with ...
... glory . O Thou God of old ! Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these : - But so much patience , as a blade of grass Grows by , contented through the heat and cold . I CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON . THINK we are too ready with ...
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... glory , shines . III . God is so good , He wears a fold Of Heaven and earth across His face , - Like secrets kept , for love , untold . IV . But still I feel that His embrace Slides down , by thrills , through all things made , Through ...
... glory , shines . III . God is so good , He wears a fold Of Heaven and earth across His face , - Like secrets kept , for love , untold . IV . But still I feel that His embrace Slides down , by thrills , through all things made , Through ...
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... glory in declining . Red roses used to praises long , Contented with the poet's song , The nightingale's being over ; And lilies white , prepared to touch The whitest thought , nor soil it much , Of dreamer turned to lover . Deep ...
... glory in declining . Red roses used to praises long , Contented with the poet's song , The nightingale's being over ; And lilies white , prepared to touch The whitest thought , nor soil it much , Of dreamer turned to lover . Deep ...
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... THREAD OF GOLD . N the night she told a story , IN In the night and all night through , While the moon was in her glory , And the branches dropped with dew . ' T was my life she told , and round Love Love's Thread of Gold.
... THREAD OF GOLD . N the night she told a story , IN In the night and all night through , While the moon was in her glory , And the branches dropped with dew . ' T was my life she told , and round Love Love's Thread of Gold.
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... glory , And your love its thread of gold . WE FAILURE . E are much bound to them that do succeed : But , in a more pathetic sense , are bound To such as fail . They all our loss expound ; They comfort us for work that will not speed ...
... glory , And your love its thread of gold . WE FAILURE . E are much bound to them that do succeed : But , in a more pathetic sense , are bound To such as fail . They all our loss expound ; They comfort us for work that will not speed ...
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Angel that cometh baby smile beloved bird Blessed blossoms bower bright CHRISTINA G cold cowslips crown Cusha daily Bread dare to fail dark day break days go dead dear death divine doth doubting heart dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING fade faint fair fall fear feet flowers friends garden Give glory God's golden Goldilocks grief hath Heaven holy hope hour JEAN INGELOW Lamb of God leave Life's light lilies look Lord love thee LOVE UNDERSTANDS Love-lies-bleeding love's loved once Maiden mystery never night ocean spray pain peace pleasure pray prayers reap rose shadow shine sigh silence sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul SOWING AND REAPING spring starry stars strife sweet tears tender thine things thorn thou art to-day to-morrow treasure Trust and Rest Truth Unveiled uppe voice wait weary weep wilt thou go wind wings word
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Page 12 - Au. are not taken ! there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring. And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices, to make soft the wind. But if it were not so — if I could find No love in all the world for comforting. Nor any path but hollowly did ring, Where