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THE OLD YEAR’S BLESSING POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – THE OLD YEAR’S BLESSING POEM I AM fading from you, But one draweth near, Called the Angel-guardian Of the coming year. If my gifts and graces Coldly you forget, Let the New Year’s Angel Bless and […]

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EVENING CHANT POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – EVENING CHANT POEM STREW before our Lady’s Picture Roses—flushing like the sky Where the lingering western cloudlets Watch the daylight die. Violets steeped in dreamy odours, Humble as the Mother mild, Blue as were her eyes when watching […]

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL POEM THE moon that now is shining In skies so blue and bright, Shone ages since on Shepherds Who watched their flocks by night. There was no sound upon the earth, The azure air […]

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OUR TITLES POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – OUR TITLES POEM ARE we not Nobles? we who trace Our pedigree so high That God for us and for our race Created Earth and Sky And Light and Air and Time and Space, To serve us and […]

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MINISTERING ANGELS POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – MINISTERING ANGELS POEM ANGELS of light, spread your bright wings and keep Near me at morn: Nor in the starry eve, nor midnight deep, Leave me forlorn. From all dark spirits of unholy power Guard my weak heart. […]

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THE SHRINES OF MARY POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – THE SHRINES OF MARY POEM THERE are many shrines of our Lady, In different lands and climes, Where I can remember kneeling In old and beloved times. They arise now like stars before me Through the […]

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THE HOMELESS POOR POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – THE HOMELESS POOR POEM CALM the City lay in midnight silence, Deep on streets and roofs the snow lay white; Then I saw an Angel spread his pinions Rising up to Heaven to meet the nigh. In […]

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Stolen Waters Poem by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Poetry from Three Sunsets and Other Poems. Stolen Waters Poem The light was faint, and soft the air That breathed around the place; And she was lithe, and tall, and fair, And with a wayward grace Her queenly head she bare. With glowing cheek, with gleaming eye, […]

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MILLY’S EXPIATION THE PRIEST’S STORY POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – MILLY’S EXPIATION THE PRIEST’S STORY POEM -I- THERE are times when all these terrors Seem to fade, and fade away, Like a nightmare’s ghastly presence In the truthful dawn of day. There are times, too, […]

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A CASTLE IN THE AIR POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – A CASTLE IN THE AIR POEM I BUILT myself a castle, So noble, grand and fair; I built myself a castle, A castle—in the air. The fancies of my twilights That fade in sober truth, […]

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PER PACEM AD LUCEM POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – PER PACEM AD LUCEM POEM I DO not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road; I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me Aught of its load; I do not ask […]

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A LEGEND POEM by Adelaide Anne Procter Poetry from A Chaplet of Verses. ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER – A LEGEND POEM -I- THE Monk was preaching: strong his earnest word, From the abundance of his heart he spoke, And the flame spread—in every soul that heard Sorrow and love and good resolve awoke:— The poor lay […]

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