[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]

THIS IS ALL.

[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,]

[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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THIS IS ALL.

Trying, trying—always trying—
Falling down to save a fall;
Living by the dint of dying,—
This is all!

Giving, giving—always giving—
Gathering just abroad to cast;
Dying by the dint of living
At the last!

Sighing, smiling—smiling, sighing—
Sun in shade, and shade in sun;
Dying, living—living, dying—
Both in one!

Hoping in our very fearing,
Striving hard against our strife;
Drifting in the stead of steering,—
This is life!

Seeming to believe in seeming,
Half disproving, to approve;
Knowing that we dream, in dreaming,—
This is love!

Being in our weakness stronger,—
Living where there is no breath;
Feeling harm can harm no longer,—
This is death.

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THIS IS ALL.