FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Legends and Lyrics: Second Series, by Adelaide Anne Procter This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Legends and Lyrics: Second Series Author: Adelaide Anne Procter Release Date: October 20, 2004 [eBook #2304] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGENDS AND LYRICS: SECOND SERIES*** This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1890 George Bell and Sons edition. LEGENDS AND LYRICS--SECOND SERIES by Adelaide Anne Procter Contents: A Legend of Provence Envy Over the Mountain Beyond A Warning Maximus Optimus A Lost Chord Too Late The Requital Returned--"Missing" In the Wood Two Worlds A New Mother Give Place My Will King and Slave A Chant Dream-Life Rest The Tyrant and the Captive The Carver's Lesson Three Roses My Picture Gallery Sent to Heaven Never Again Listening Angels Golden Days Philip and Mildred Borrowed Thoughts Light and Shade A Changeling Discouraged If Thou couldst know The Warrior to his Dead Bride A Letter A Comforter Unseen A Remembrance of Autumn Three Evenings in a Life The Wind Expectation An Ideal Our Dead A Woman's Answer The Story of the Faithful Soul A Contrast The Bride's Dream The Angel's Bidding Spring Evening Hymn The Inner Chamber Hearts Two Loves A Woman's Last Word Past and Present For the Future VERSE: A LEGEND OF PROVENCE The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant, Half weary with a listless discontent. The flickering giant-shadows, gathering near, Closed round me with a dim and silent fear. All dull, all dark; save when the leaping flame, Glancing, lit up a Picture's ancient frame. Above the hearth it hung. Perhaps the night, My foolish tremors, or the gleaming light, Lent power to that Portrait dark and quaint-- A Portrait such as Rembrandt loved to paint-- The likeness of a Nun. I seemed to trace A world of sorrow in the patient face, In the thin hands folded across her breast-- Its own and the room's shadow hid the rest. I gazed and dreamed, and the dull embers stirred, Till an old legend that I once had heard Came back to me; li
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Procter
 

Adelaide

 
LEGENDS
 
Project
 

Gutenberg

 

hearth

 

Picture

 

SERIES

 

SECOND

 
LYRICS

Series

 

Legends

 
Portrait
 
Second
 
Lyrics
 

lights

 
gathering
 
PROVENCE
 

Closed

 

shadows


flickering

 

listless

 

discontent

 

extinguished

 

Hearts

 
Answer
 
Faithful
 

Contrast

 

Evenings

 

Autumn


Expectation
 
Bidding
 

Spring

 

Present

 
Future
 
Evening
 

Chamber

 

silent

 

LEGEND

 
Perhaps

breast

 

shadow

 

folded

 
sorrow
 

patient

 
legend
 

dreamed

 

embers

 

stirred

 

ancient