Emily Pfeiffer Poems

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Six 14-Line Poems

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PEACE to the odalisque, the facile slave,
Whose unrespective love rewards the brave,
Or cherishes the coward; she who yields
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A Prayer To Athena

Athena! I, whom love did once embolden
To worship in that temple wh ...
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A Partnership

SORROW, since I perforce must dwell with thee,
Being as thou art, no transient guest, but bold
As cunning to invade my heart, and hold
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4.
A Symphony Of Sonnets. I. To X.

BREAK, break, O heart! upon this stony shore
Of Time, for not the most tormented sea
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5.
Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven

Unfathomed depths of pure humanity
Speak in that face, and those enfolding hands
Laid lightly on the clinging child who stands
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The Love That Dares To Wait

A maiden of a race that heralds glory in, loved one
Whose single arm had wrought more deeds than on their blazon shone;
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Song-The Brooding Birds Are Singing, Love

The brooding birds are singing, love,
And waking up the morn,
And me they wake from troubled sleep
To weep and pray,—to pray and weep.
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8.
The Cruse Of Tears

There went a widow woman from the outskirts of the city,
Whose lonely sorrow might have moved the stones she trod to pity.
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9.
The Rhyme Of The Lady Of The Rock.

Two shapes passed over the sobbing sea
To land at Dunolly Bay;
One passed at sunrise, one at noon
Of the new-created day.
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10.
To Nature

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O NATURE! thou whom I have thought to love,
Seeing in thine the reflex of God's face,
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