Category: Poetry
HALLOWEEN has been printed, though never published before. In the winter of 1842 I had a private edition, of fifty copies, struck off for my friends. These have been freely loaned and circulated, till the book has been enquired for by strangers, at my bookseller’s; and at his...
HALLOWEEN has been printed, though never published before. In the winter of 1842 I had a private edition, of fifty copies, struck off for my friends. These have been freely loan...
2. Part 2But in mine eyes strange virtues grew; And now the Heaven of Heavens, to view Rose glorious as the light! Oh it were idle to strive to tell, But I can remember, remember well, H...
3. Part 3My soul grew strong; and up I rose, Oh yes, I have been all night dreaming; But now the ruddy morning glows, And up the golden sun is streaming: I’ll out upon the pebbled path,...
4. Part 4They were friends in that sweet season, When the heart is foe to Reason: Loving fondly, loving kindly, Blind to fate—yet loving blindly; Happy in the passing minute; Naught the...
5. Part 5Oh blessed, my Jesu, I’ve trusted in thee, And still will I trust thee, To liberate me. And so, while I languish, I cry in my anguish, Adoring, imploring and bending the knee; I...
6. Part 6He shall stand like a tree in the garden of God, His boughs high in heaven, his root in the sod, All goodly and green as the olives that bend, Where rills of the desert through...
7. Part 7Such is the more literal rendering of the original Hebrew text, in the first verse of the first Psalm. For the criticism I am indebted to my preceptor, the late Prof. Nordheimer...