Category: Poetry
Mary Howitt was born at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, where her parents were making a temporary residence; but shortly after her birth they returned to their accustomed abode at Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, where she spent her youth. The beautiful Arcadian scenery of this part...
Mary Howitt was born at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, where her parents were making a temporary residence; but shortly after her birth they returned to their accustomed abode at...
4. vivid. Indeed, she describes her overwhelming astonishment and delightin the treasures of general and modern literature, to be like what Keates says his feelings were when a new world of poetry opened upon him, through Chapman’s “Homer,”--as to th...
5. SCENE I._Ter._ Thou, that didst bear a pain that had no healing-- An undivided misery, Which unto kindred heart knew no appealing, O, hear thou me! I tell thee not mine own peculiar woe...
6. SCENE II._Night--the same forest; the pine trees are old and splintered, and covered with snow; it is a scene of desolation--at a little distance a small house is seen through an opening...
7. SCENE III._Paol._ Ah, alas, I had forgotten that! But, mother dear, Thou couldst not be so wretched, wanting me, As I, if thou wert not! It breaks my heart Only to think of it; and I do p...
8. SCENE IV._Olaf._ Thou braggart hunter, Is this thy wondrous skill? Wheel round the sledge Before the horse is maddened with the cry! There is no time to lose! Pull in the beast!
9. SCENE V.10. SCENE VI._Teresa._ How late it is! an hour beyond the midnight! And bitter cold it is! The icy wind Even pierces through these walls! Poor little Paolo, How weary and half-frozen he will...
11. SCENE VII.Kind Saviour, who didst shed Tears for thy Lazarus dead; Who raised the widow’s son from off his bier; Who didst endure all woe That human hearts can know, Hear me, O hear!
12. SCENE VIII._Olaf._ For years of tyranny I do beseech Thy pardon!--For thy meekness and thy truth The unrepining patience, and the beauty Of thy most holy life, my wife, I bless thee!
13. PART I.“For many a heart is sorrowful, And I that heart may cheer;-- And many a weary captive pines In dungeons dark and drear;-- And I the iron bonds may loose,-- Then why abide I here?
14. PART II.Now Marien in the woman’s house Abode a little space, And comfort to the mother came; And a dear daughter’s place Had Marien in the woman’s heart, Doing the while a daughter’s p...
15. PART III.“They say this blessed book can heal All trouble, and therefore All day I keep it in my sight; I lay it ’neath my head at night, But it doth bring no cure to me:-- I know not wh...
16. PART IV.Sometimes within the baron’s hall A lodging she would find, And never went she from the door But blessings staid behind; Proud foes forgiven, revenge withheld, And plenteous pea...
17. PART V.’Twas a proud city and a rich; A city fair and old; Filled with the world’s most costly things,-- Of precious stones and gold; Of silks, fine woods, and spiceries; And all that’...
18. PART VI.So perished for their faith in Christ, This righteous couple; for their foes Beseeching pardon; blessing God That they were reckoned among those Worthy to die for Christ, whose...
19. PART VII.“I think upon my early days, Like unto days of heaven; And I, that have not wept for years, Even as a child, shed ceaseless tears, And pray to be forgiven!”
20. PART VIII.Joyful in her release she went, Still onward yet, and higher; Up many a mossy, stony steep, Through many a flock of mountain sheep, By the hill-tarns so dark and deep, As if she...
21. PART IX.He goeth on his daily course, Made fat with oil and wine, And pitieth not the weary souls That in his bondage pine; That turn for him the mazy wheel; That delve for him the mine.
22. PART X.Wo-worth those children, hard bested They worked the livelong day; Nor was there one, save Marien, A soothing word to say:-- So, amid toil and pain of heart, The long months wor...
23. PART XI.For many an abject dweller there, Grief-bowed and labour-spent, Groaned forth, amid his little ones, To heaven his sad lament; And unto such, to raise, to cheer, The sent of God...
24. PART XII.“Oh Lord, I bless thee,” said the youth, “That of thy mercy great, Thou hast vouchsafed to rescue me From my forlorn estate! And henceforth, to thy work of love Myself I dedicate!
25. PART I.“Nay, nay, I shall go back!” he said; “For thee I do not know;-- I must be back again,” he cried, “Before the sun be low!” Then sprang unto the vessel’s side, And made as he wou...
26. PART II.From out the cabin evermore, Where they were all alone, We heard, oh piteous sounds to hear, A low and quiet moan; And now and then cries sad enough To move a heart of stone.
27. PART III.But a blessing great went with the ship, And with the frieght she bore; The pearl-shells turned to great account, So did the island’s ore;-- But I someway lost my reckoning, Nor...
28. PART I.29. PART II.“Oh, but she is a comely child,” Said a third, “and we will lay A good-luck-penny in her path, A boon for her this day,-- Seeing she broke no living wood; No live thing did affr...