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THANKFULNESS POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: THANKFULNESS POEM My God, I thank Thee who hast made The Earth so bright; So full of splendour and of joy, Beauty and light; So many glorious things are here, Noble and right! I thank Thee, too, that […]

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HOME-SICKNESS POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: HOME-SICKNESS POEM Where I am, the halls are gilded, Stored with pictures bright and rare; Strains of deep melodious music Float upon the perfumed air:- Nothing stirs the dreary silence Save the melancholy sea, Near the poor and […]

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WISHES POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: WISHES POEM All the fluttering wishes Caged within thy heart Beat their wings against it, Longing to depart, Till they shake their prison With their wounded cry; Open wide thy heart to-day, And let the captives fly. Let […]

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THE PEACE OF GOD POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: THE PEACE OF GOD POEM We ask for Peace, oh Lord! Thy children ask Thy Peace; Not what the world calls rest, That toil and care should cease, That through bright sunny hours Calm Life […]

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LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE POEM I. If the dread day that calls thee hence, Through a red mist of fear should loom, (Closing in deadliest night and gloom Long […]

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RECOLLECTIONS POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: RECOLLECTIONS POEM As strangers, you and I are here; We both as aliens stand, Where once, in years gone by, I dwelt No stranger in the land. Then while you gaze on park and stream, Let me remain […]

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ILLUSION POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: ILLUSION POEM Where the golden corn is bending, And the singing reapers pass, Where the chestnut woods are sending Leafy showers upon the grass, The blue river onward flowing Mingles with its noisy strife, The murmur of the […]

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A Vision Poem by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. Adelaide Anne Procter Verse: A Vision Poem Gloomy and black are the cypress trees, Drearily waileth the chill night breeze. The long grass waveth, the tombs are white, And the black clouds flit o’er the chill moonlight. Silent is all save […]

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Pictures in the Fire Poem by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. Adelaide Anne Procter Verse: Pictures in the Fire Poem What is it you ask me, darling? All my stories, child, you know; I have no strange dreams to tell you, Pictures I have none to show. Tell you glorious […]

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The Settlers Poem by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. Adelaide Anne Procter Verse: The Settlers Poem Two stranger youths in the Far West, Beneath the ancient forest trees, Pausing, amid their toil to rest, Spake of their home beyond the seas; Spake of the hearts that beat so warmly, Of […]

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HUSH POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: HUSH POEM “I can scarcely hear,” she murmured, “For my heart beats loud and fast, But surely, in the far, far distance, I can hear a sound at last.” “It is only the reapers singing, As they carry […]

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HOURS POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from Legends and Lyrics First Series. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER VERSE: HOURS POEM When the bright stars came out last night, And the dew lay on the flowers, I had a vision of delight— A dream of by-gone hours. Those hours that came and fled so fast, Of pleasure […]

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