Potential Titles: E. Nesbit

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In the cold and the outer night - E. Nesbit "Accession"

To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

The alms of our deep-laden bough - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Its hidden thorns discover - E. Nesbit "Chagrin d'Amour"

A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"

She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"

Starve our hearts on clay - E. Nesbit "Death"

Full false has played - E. Nesbit "La Derniere Robe de Soi"

To be the stars of Paradise - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

Your lips to be the seal of all - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

To mock the evil years - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

And barb their stings with memory - E. Nesbit "In Memory of Saretta Deakin"

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

If such an hour goes by with all the rest - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Goddess of the shining shrine - E. Nesbit "The Least Possible"

Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Light the tulip lanterns - E. Nesbit "The Maiden's Prayer"

The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Our hearts would break to prove - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Right to the heart of violets goes - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

All the centuries of hope deferred - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

Blasted with ice and fire - E. Nesbit "The Old Dispensation"

Where caged winds slumber - E. Nesbit "Out of the Fulness of the Heart the Mouth Speaketh"

To lure them to the snare - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

When sorrow gathers memories in a sheaf - E. Nesbit "A Prayer for the King's Majesty"

All after hastens to the noon - E. Nesbit "Resurgam"

Candles may serve, if there should be no day - E. Nesbit "Retro Sathanas"

And only dust lay in the cup - E. Nesbit "Second Nature"

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

On the still garden of my heart - E. Nesbit "Song"

The moonlight of your memory - E. Nesbit "Song"

A jewel for sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Like lamps between sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Unfettered and yet side by side - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

My heart has made me orphan - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

To keep your roots from frost - E. Nesbit "The Things that Matter"

Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

The golden steep straight sunbeam-stair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Lit the torch of hollyhock - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Dressed the honeysuckle in fringe of gold - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Set the yarrow by the river side - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Time with his axe has marked our wood - E. Nesbit "To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love"

This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

This royal promise of the rose - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

To speed your ship of dreams - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

How jealously you guard the root - E. Nesbit "The Tree of Knowledge"

To the gate by the twisted thorn - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

To make a third at your tryst - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

A fading dream of veil and star - E. Nesbit "The Veil of Maya"

For life makes no amends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The splendid spoils of wasted years - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The snare of vain imaginings - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The swing of the sickle, restless and slow - E. Nesbit "[What o'clock is it, children dear]"

A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

And Hope wanders lost - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

When you gaze on the blossom - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live

When you gaze on the bud - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The rebels that shout in your blood - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The dreams of Life's treacherous night - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The buds of the poplars are falling - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"


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