Faith Ada Cambridge And is the great cause lost beyond recall? Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? …
Evensong Ada Cambridge The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light. O Lord, to Thee, with spirit meek and lowly, I …
Empty Ada Cambridge Can this be my poem?—this poor fragment Of bald thought in meanest language dressed! Can this string of rhymes be my sweet poem? All its …
Drunk And Disorderly Ada Cambridge Poor, staggering brute, whom one and all disdain! Maybe ’twas outraged Nature bade him slake His thirst like this — to still the gnawing …
Drunk Ada Cambridge The filthy beast! And is he here again, With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet, To taint the atmosphere and shame the street, And …
Despair Ada Cambridge Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Like melting fog the mirage melts away In all-surrounding darkness, void …
Desire Ada Cambridge Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill The young blood, running wildly, as it must; But lips and eyes beget a strange distrust. Electric …
Dead Ada Cambridge “ON board the Petrel, in St. Lucia’s bay, Of yellow fever—agèd twenty-nine.” “Who did you say, my lady?” drawled the Earl. “The duke—what duke?” …
Cui Bono Ada Cambridge 1. Why should we care for storms that rave and rend, Safe at our household hearth? Unknowing whence we came, or where we …
Craven-Heart Ada Cambridge Those anguished voices in the air! Oh, I could shriek and tear my hair In rage, rebellion and despair. But what is one, amid a throng …
