Category: English Poems
The Baptistry Ada Cambridge One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature’s rest, As she lay sleeping, with her hair unbound, Holding …
Sic Vos Non Vobis Ada Cambridge Ye, that the untrod paths have braved, With heart and brain unbound; Who ask not that your souls be saved, But that the …
Shadow And Substance Ada Cambridge What have we lost with our lost Heaven and Hell? Have sacred faith and worship come to naught? Is life no more with …
Seeking Ada Cambridge Bright eyes, sweet lips, with sudden fevers fill My strong blood, running wildly, as it must; But lips and eyes too soon beget distrust. A …
Seed-Time And Harvest Ada Cambridge “Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the …
Responsibility Ada Cambridge Why are our ideals hid from hostile eyes As boys in school hide toys from master’s view? Let them be real as we believe them …
Recollection Ada Cambridge Awawe-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping A silken mantle o’er its jagged sides; And silvery, seething waters softly lapping Through gulfs and channels hollow’d by …
Reaction Ada Cambridge Let us, dear friend, in mutual strength arise Against our tyrant Custom, and demand Free souls and bodies at our own command. Let us defy …
Profit And Loss Ada Cambridge Each day a new sword flashes in the van; Another leader, brave to do or die, Comes forth, full- furnished for the strife …
Practising The Anthem Ada Cambridge A summer wind blows through the open porch, And, ‘neath the rustling eaves, A summer light of moonrise, calm and pale, Shines through …
