[Poems by Cary in] The Poetical Works Of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Cary, Alice (1820-1871)

A MEMORIAL OF ALICE AND PHŒBE CARY.

OUR HOMESTEAD.

MY LITTLE ONE.

[Laugh, you who never had]

[Oh for a single hour]

[I thank Thee that my childhood's vanished days]

[Do you hear the wild birds calling]

[Very pale lies Annie Clayville]

[My little bird of the air]

CRADLE SONG.

[Give me to see, though only in a dream]

[Here, and not here]

[Low lying in her pallid pain]

[Therefore I pray, and can but pray]

[As the poor panting hart to the water-brooks runs]

[My soul is full of whispered song]

ALICE CARY'S POEMS.

TO THE SPIRIT OF SONG.

BALLADS AND NARRATIVE POEMS.

A WALK THROUGH THE SNOW.

THE FERRY OF GALLAWAY.

REVOLUTIONARY STORY.

THE MIGHT OF LOVE.

“THE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH.”

JOHNNY RIGHT.

THE SETTLER'S CHRISTMAS EVE.

THE OLD STORY.

BALDER'S WIFE.

AT REHEARSAL.

THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE.

THE MINES OF AVONDALE.

THE VICTORY OF PERRY.

THE WINDOW JUST OVER THE STREET.

A FABLE OF CLOUD-LAND

BARBARA AT THE WINDOW.

BARBARA IN THE MEADOW.

BALLAD OF UNCLE JOE.

THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.

POEMS OF THOUGHT AND FEELING.

ON SEEING A DROWNING MOTH.

GOOD AND EVIL.

STROLLER'S SONG.

A LESSON.

[He spoils his house and throws his pains away]

ON SEEING A WILD BIRD.

RICH, THOUGH POOR.

[Still from the unsatisfying quest]

[The glance that doth thy neighbor doubt]

[Too much of joy is sorrowful]

THE SEA-SIDE CAVE.

THE MEASURE OF TIME.

IDLE FEARS.

[Do not look for wrong and evil]

[Our unwise purposes are wisely crossed;]

HINTS.

TO A STAGNANT RIVER.

[Apart from the woes that are dead and gone,]

A DREAM.

[We are the mariners, and God the Sea]

[The best man should never pass by]

[Her voice was sweet and low; her face]

WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864.

POEMS OF NATURE AND HOME.

IF AND IF.

AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE.

THE LIGHT OF DAYS GONE BY.

A SEA SONG.

SERMONS IN STONES.

MY PICTURE.

MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS.

THE THISTLE FLOWER.

MY DARLINGS.

THE FIELD SWEET-BRIER.

THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL.

KATRINA ON THE PORCH.

THE LOVER'S INTERDICT.

THE LADY TO THE LOVER.

LOVE'S SECRET SPRINGS.

THE SEAL FISHER'S WIFE.

[O winds! ye are too rough, too rough]

POEMS OF GRIEF AND CONSOLATION.

[What comfort, when with clouds of woe]

RELIGIOUS POEMS AND HYMNS.

THANKSGIVING.

[Hope in our hearts doth only stay]

PUTTING OFF THE ARMOR.

[Thy works, O Lord, interpret thee]

[Our God is love, and that which we miscall]

THE HEAVEN THAT'S HERE.

[Among the pitfalls in our way]

[Why should our spirits be opprest]

POEMS FOR CHILDREN.

THE LITTLE BLACKSMITH.

WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO TURN UP.

STORY OF A BLACKBIRD.

FAIRY-FOLK.

BURIED GOLD.

RECIPE FOR AN APPETITE.

DAN AND DIMPLE, AND HOW THEY QUARRELED.

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A DREAM.

I dreamed I had a plot of ground,
Once when I chanced asleep to drop,
And that a green hedge fenced it round,
Cloudy with roses at the top.

I saw a hundred mornings rise,—
So far a little dream may reach,—
And spring with summer in her eyes
Making the chiefest charm of each.

A thousand vines were climbing o'er
The hedge, I thought, but as I tried
To pull them down, for evermore
The flowers dropt off the other side!

Waking, I said, these things are signs
Sent to instruct us that 't is ours
Duly to keep and dress our vines,—
Waiting in patience for the flowers.

And when the angel feared of all
Across my hearth its shadow spread,
The rose that climbed my garden wall
Has bloomed the other side, I said.

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A DREAM.