Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems

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1.
A Message

Was there ever message sweeter
Than that one from Malvern Hill,
From a grim old fellow-you remember?
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2.
All The Rivers

'All the rivers run into the sea.'
Like the pulsing of a river,
The motion of a song,
Wind the olden words along
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3.
A Man's Reply

That heart were something cold, I think,
That on the light of stars relied
For daily fire; and cruel is
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4.
New Neighbors

Within the window's scant recess,
Behind a pink geranium flower,
She sits and sews, and sews and sits,
From patient hour to patient hour.
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5.
Petronilla

Of Peter's daughter, it is said, men told,
While yet she breathed, a tale as sad as life,
As sweet as death; which, now she sleeps, has lent
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6.
Two Faces

'Would I could see!' I heard one say but now,
'The strongest woman and the tenderest man
That ever God had dared put in the world!'
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7.
Spent

Heart of iron, smile of ice,
Oh! the rock.
See him stand as dumb as death.
If you could,
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8.
The First Christmas Apart

The shadows watch about the house;
Silent as they, I come.
Oh, it is true that life is deaf,
And not that death is dumb.
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9.
The Room's Width

I think if I should cross the room,
Far as fear;
Should stand beside you like a thought-
Touch you, Dear!
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10.
Hide-And-Go-Seek

Happiness has found me out,
Found me out at last!
O, she 's dogged me round about;
All my hurrying life she 's chased me,
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