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Title: The Miracle and Other Poems

Author: Virna Sheard

Release Date: January 19, 2004 [eBook #10750]

Language: English

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THE MIRACLE

AND OTHER POEMS

BY VIRNA SHEARD

1913

TO MY DEAR BROTHER

ELDRIDGE STANTON (JUNIOR)

WHO DIED BRAVELY AT NIAGARA, ON THE AFTERNOON OF
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 1912.

No tears for thee, no tears, or sighs,
Or breaking heart--
But smiles, that thou so well that bitter hour
Didst play thy part!

VIRNA SHEARD.

CONTENTS

THE MIRACLE
THE CROW
WHEN APRIL COMES
KISMET
A SONG OF SUMMER DAYS
AT THE PLAY
CHRISTMAS
THE HEART COURAGEOUS
A SONG
THE CALL
THE KNIGHT-ERRANT
A SOUTHERN LULLABY
THE FAIRY CLOCK
THE SLUMBER ANGEL
THE LONELY ROAD
SEA-BORN
THE ANGEL
WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES
THE OPAL MONTH
NOCTURNE
A SONG OF LOVE
THE UNKNOWING
THE PETITION
HALLOWE'EN
THE GLEANER
THE ROVER
IN SOLITUDE
THE ROBIN
A SONG OF ROSES
PRAIRIE
THE CUMBER
THE DAISY
THE VISION
SAINTS
AT MIDNIGHT
NOVEMBER
THE LILY-POND
LILACS
APRIL
PAEANS
THE HARP
GULLS
THE SHEPHERD WIND
THE TEMPLE
REQUEST
A SONG
THE TOAST
THE SEA-SHELL
AT DAWN
THE WHISTLER
COMMON-WEALTH
DON CUPID
HEAVEN
SIR HENRY IRVING
JEAN DE BREBOEUF
IN EGYPT
A SONG OF POPPIES
A PAGAN PRAYER
A LOVE SONG

THE MIRACLE AND OTHER POEMS

THE MIRACLE

Up from the templed city of the Jews,
The road ran straight and white
To Jericho, the City of the Palms,
The City of Delight.

Down that still road from far Judean hills
The shepherds drove their sheep
At silver dawn--at stirring of the birds--
When men were all asleep.

Full many went that weary way at noon,
Or rested by the trees,
Romans and slaves, Gentiles and bearded priests,
Sinners and Pharisees.

But when the pink clouds drifted far and high,
Like rose leaves blowing past,
When in the west where one star blessed the sky
The gates of day shut fast.

All travellers journeyed ho