Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems

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11.
A Child’s Smile

A CHILD'S smile--nothing more;
Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen;
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12.
A Living Picture

No, I'll not say your name. I have said it now,
As you mine, first in childish treble, then
Up through a score and more familiar years
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13.
A Rejected Lover

You 'never loved me,' Ada. These slow words
Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue
Out of your true and kindly woman-heart,
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14.
North Wind

LOUD wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
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15.
A Spirit Present

IF, coming from that unknown sphere
Where I believe thou art,--
The world unseen which girds our world
So close, yet so apart,--
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16.
A Christmas Carol

GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day
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17.
A Fable

SILENT and sunny was the way
Where Youth and I danced on together:
So winding and embowered o'er,
We could not see one rood before.
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18.
A Dead Baby

LITTLE soul, for such brief space that entered
In this little body straight and chilly,
Little life that fluttered and departed,
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19.
A Valentine

YE are twa laddies unco gleg,
An' blithe an' bonnie:
As licht o' heel as Anster's Meg;--
Gin ye'd a lassie's favor beg,
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20.
A Hymn For Christmas Morning

IT is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.
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