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Poetry

George MacDonald

Poetryabout 17 hours of listening

A collection of poetry by Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister George MacDonald, exploring themes of faith, nature, redemption, and the human soul.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. To My Father
  3. A Hidden Life
  4. The Homeless Ghost
  5. Abu Midjan
  6. An Old Story
  7. A Book of Dreams
  8. To Aurelio Saffi
  9. A. M. D.
  10. A Memorial of Africa
  11. A Gift
  12. The Man of Songs
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  1. Better Things
  2. The Journey
  3. Prayer
  4. Rest
  5. To A. J. Scott
  6. Light
  7. To A. J. Scott: When, Long Ago, the Daring of My Youth
  8. Were I a Skilful Painter
  9. If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
  10. Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth
  11. The Hills
  12. I Know What Beauty Is
  13. I Would I Were a Child
  14. The Lost Soul
  15. A Dream Within a Dream
  16. After an Old Legend
  17. The Tree’s Prayer
  18. A Story of the Sea-Shore
  19. My Heart
  20. O Do Not Leave Me
  21. The Flower-Angels
  22. To My Sister
  23. Oh Thou of Little Faith
  24. Longing: My Heart Is Full of Inarticulate Pain
  25. The Disciple
  26. The Child-Mother
  27. Love’s Ordeal
  28. A Prayer for the Past
  29. Far and Near
  30. My Room
  31. Sympathy
  32. Little Elfie
  33. The Thank-Offering
  34. The Burnt-Offering
  35. To S. F. S.
  36. The Unseen Face
  37. Concerning Jesus
  38. Death and Birth
  39. Longing: Away from the City’s Herds!
  40. My Eyes Make Pictures
  41. Death
  42. Lessons for a Child
  43. Hope Deferred: Summer Is Come Again. The Sun Is Bright,
  44. The Death of the Old Year
  45. A Thanksgiving
  46. I: The Mother Mary
  47. II: The Woman That Lifted Up Her Voice
  48. III: The Mother of Zebedee’s Children
  49. IV: The Syrophenician Woman
  50. V: The Widow of Nain
  51. VI: The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound
  52. VII: The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd
  53. VIII: The Widow with the Two Mites
  54. IX: The Women Who Ministered Unto Him
  55. X: Pilate’s Wife
  56. XI: The Woman of Samaria
  57. XII: Mary Magdalene
  58. XIII: The Woman in the Temple
  59. XIV: Martha
  60. XV: Mary
  61. XVI: The Woman That Was a Sinner
  62. A Song in a Dream
  63. Songs of the Summer Days
  64. Songs of the Summer Nights
  65. Songs of the Autumn Days
  66. Songs of the Autumn Nights
  67. Songs of the Winter Days
  68. Songs of the Winter Nights
  69. Songs of the Spring Days
  70. Songs of the Spring Nights
  71. The Three Horses
  72. The Golden Key
  73. Somnium Mystici
  74. The Sangreal
  75. The Failing Track
  76. Tell Me
  77. Brother Artist!
  78. Sir Lark and King Sun
  79. The Owl and the Bell
  80. He Heeded Not
  81. The Sheep and the Goat
  82. The Shadows
  83. An Old Sermon with a New Text
  84. The Wakeful Sleeper
  85. A Dream of Waking
  86. A Meditation of St. Eligius
  87. Hymn for a Sick Girl
  88. A Christmas Carol for 1862
  89. A Christmas Carol
  90. The Sleepless Jesus
  91. The Children’s Heaven
  92. Rejoice
  93. The Grace of Grace
  94. Antiphon
  95. Dorcas
  96. Marriage Song
  97. Blind Bartimeus
  98. Come Unto Me
  99. Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
  100. Blessed Are They That Mourn
  101. Blessed Are the Meek
  102. Blessed Are They That Hunger
  103. Blessed Are the Merciful
  104. Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
  105. Morning Hymn
  106. Evening Hymn
  107. Noontide Hymn
  108. The Thankless Lady
  109. The Sea-Shell
  110. Autumn Song
  111. Spring Song
  112. What Makes Summer?
  113. The Mistletoe
  114. Wild Flowers
  115. Professor Noctutus
  116. Bird-Songs
  117. The Unseen Model
  118. Legend of the Corrievrechan
  119. The Dead Hand
  120. To Lady Noel Byron
  121. To Garibaldi, with a Book
  122. To the Same
  123. The Holy Midnight
  124. Hard Times
  125. Summer Song
  126. Picture Songs
  127. A Dream Song
  128. A Manchester Poem
  129. Riddles
  130. Baby
  131. Up and Down
  132. Up in the Tree
  133. A Baby-Sermon
  134. Little Bo-Peep
  135. Little Boy Blue
  136. Willie’s Question
  137. The Early Bird
  138. Song of the Lonely
  139. The Diary of an Old Soul
  140. Dedication
  141. January
  142. February
  143. March
  144. April
  145. May
  146. June
  147. July
  148. August
  149. September
  150. October
  151. November
  152. December
  153. A Threefold Cord
  154. Dedication
  155. The Haunted House
  156. In the Winter
  157. Christmas-Day, 1878
  158. The New Year
  159. Two Rondels
  160. Rondel: Heart, Thou Must Learn to Do Without—
  161. Song: Lighter and Sweeter
  162. Smoke
  163. To a Certain Critic
  164. Song: She Loves Thee, Loves Thee Not!
  165. A Cry
  166. From Home
  167. To My Mother Earth
  168. Thy Heart
  169. O Lord, How Happy!
  170. No Sign
  171. The Chrysalis
  172. November, 1851
  173. Of One Who Died in Spring
  174. An Autumn Song
  175. Triolet: Few in Joy’s Sweet Riot
  176. I See Thee Not
  177. A Broken Prayer
  178. Come Down
  179. A Thanksgiving for F. D. Maurice
  180. A Mood
  181. The Carpenter
  182. The Old Garden
  183. A Noonday Melody
  184. Who Lights the Fire?
  185. Who Would Have Thought?
  186. On a December Day
  187. Christmas Day, 1850
  188. To a February Primrose
  189. In February
  190. The True
  191. The Dwellers Therein
  192. Autumn’s Gold
  193. Punishment
  194. Show Us the Father
  195. The Pinafore
  196. The Prism
  197. Sleep
  198. Sharing
  199. In Bonds
  200. Hunger
  201. To the Clouds
  202. New Year’s Eve: A Waking Dream
  203. Death: Mourn Not, My Friends, That We Are Growing Old
  204. From North Wales: To the Mother
  205. Come to Me
  206. A Fear
  207. The Lost House
  208. The Talk of the Echoes
  209. The Goal
  210. The Healer
  211. Oh That a Wind
  212. A Vision of St. Eligius
  213. Of the Son of Man
  214. A Song-Sermon:
  215. Words in the Night
  216. Consider the Ravens
  217. The Wind of the World
  218. Sabbath Bells
  219. Fighting
  220. After the Fashion of an Old Emblem
  221. George Rolleston
  222. A Prayer in Sickness
  223. Quiet Dead!
  224. Let Your Light So Shine
  225. Triolet: When the Heart Is a Cup
  226. The Souls’ Rising
  227. Awake!
  228. To an Autograph-Hunter
  229. Second Sight
  230. With a Copy of “In Memoriam”
  231. They Are Blind
  232. When the Storm Was Proudest
  233. Not Understood
  234. Hom. Il. V 403
  235. The Dawn
  236. Galileo
  237. Subsidy
  238. The Prophet
  239. The Watcher
  240. The Beloved Disciple
  241. The Lily of the Valley
  242. Evil Influence
  243. Spoken of Several Philosophers
  244. Nature a Moral Power
  245. To June
  246. Summer
  247. On a Midge
  248. Steadfast
  249. Provision
  250. First Sight of the Sea
  251. On the Source of the Arve
  252. Confidence
  253. Fate
  254. Unrest
  255. My Two Geniuses
  256. Sudden Calm
  257. Thou Also
  258. The Aurora Borealis
  259. The Human
  260. Written on a Stormy Night
  261. Reverence Waking Hope
  262. Born of Water
  263. To a Thunder-Cloud
  264. Sun and Moon
  265. Doubt Heralding Vision
  266. Life of Death?
  267. Lost and Found
  268. The Moon
  269. Truth, Not Form!
  270. God in Growth
  271. In a Churchyard
  272. Power
  273. Death: Yes, There Is One Who Makes Us All Lay Down
  274. That Holy Thing
  275. What Man Is There of You?
  276. Bell Upon Organ
  277. O Wind of God
  278. Shall the Dead Praise Thee?
  279. One with Nature
  280. A Year Song
  281. Song: Why Do the Houses Stand
  282. For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
  283. The Asthmatic Man to the Satan That Binds Him
  284. Song-Sermon: Lord, What Is Man
  285. Shadows
  286. A Winter Prayer
  287. Song of a Poor Pilgrim
  288. An Evening Prayer
  289. Song-Sermon: Mercy to Thee, O Lord, Belongs
  290. A Dream-Song
  291. Christmas, 1880
  292. Rondel: I Do Not Know Thy Final Will
  293. The Sparrow
  294. December 23, 1879
  295. Song-Prayer
  296. December 27, 1879
  297. Sunday, December 28, 1879
  298. Song-Sermon: In His Arms Thy Silly Lamb
  299. The Donkey in the Cart to the Horse in the Carriage
  300. Room to Roam
  301. I: By the Cradle
  302. II: Sweeping the Floor
  303. III: Washing the Clothes
  304. IV: Drawing Water
  305. V: Cleaning the Windows
  306. The Wind and the Moon
  307. The Foolish Harebell
  308. Song: I Was Very Cold
  309. An Improvisation
  310. Equity
  311. The Consoler
  312. To ———
  313. To a Sister
  314. Contrition
  315. The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs
  316. Russell Gurney
  317. To One Threatened with Blindness
  318. To Aubrey de Vere
  319. General Gordon
  320. Written for One in Sore Pain
  321. Christmas, 1873
  322. Christmas, 1884
  323. A Song for Christmas
  324. To My Aging Friends
  325. Christmas Song of the Old Children
  326. Christmas Meditation
  327. The Old Castle
  328. Christmas Prayer
  329. Song of the Innocents
  330. Christmas Day and Every Day
  331. Rondel
  332. A Prayer: When I Look Back Upon My Life Nigh Spent
  333. Home from the Wars
  334. God; Not Gift
  335. To Any Friend
  336. Winter Song
  337. At My Window After Sunset
  338. A Father to a Mother
  339. The Temple of God
  340. Going to Sleep
  341. To-Morrow
  342. Foolish Children
  343. Love Is Home
  344. Faith
  345. Waiting: I Waited for the Master
  346. Our Ship
  347. My Heart Thy Lark
  348. Two in One
  349. Bedtime
  350. A Prayer: Thou Who Mad’st the Mighty Clock
  351. A Song Prayer
  352. Reciprocity
  353. What the Lord Saith
  354. How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song
  355. This World
  356. Saint Peter
  357. Zacchaeus
  358. After Thomas Kemp
  359. To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum
  360. Song of the Saints and Angels
  361. Failure
  362. To E. G., Dedicating a Book
  363. To G. M. T.
  364. In Memoriam Lady Caroline Charteris
  365. A Mammon-Marriage
  366. A Song in the Night: A Brown Bird Sang on a Blossomy Tree
  367. Love’s History
  368. The Lark and the Wind
  369. A Dead House
  370. Master and Boy
  371. The Clock of the Universe
  372. The Thorn in the Flesh
  373. Lycabas
  374. In the Night
  375. The Giver
  376. False Prophets
  377. Life-Weary
  378. Approaches
  379. Travellers’ Song
  380. Love Is Strength
  381. Coming
  382. A Song of the Waiting Dead
  383. Obedience
  384. A Song in the Night: I Would I Were an Angel Strong
  385. De Profundis
  386. Blind Sorrow
  387. Angels
  388. The Father’s Worshippers
  389. A Birthday-Wish
  390. To Any One
  391. Waiting: Lie, Little Cow, and Chew Thy Cud
  392. Lost but Safe
  393. Much and More
  394. Hope and Patience
  395. A Better Thing
  396. A Prisoner
  397. To My Lord and Master
  398. To One Unsatisfied
  399. To My God
  400. Triolet
  401. The Word of God
  402. To the Life Eternal
  403. Hope Deferred: Where Is Thy Crown, O Tree of Love?
  404. Forgiveness
  405. Dejection
  406. Appeal
  407. Mother Nature
  408. King Cole
  409. Said and Did
  410. Dr. Doddridge’s Dog
  411. The Girl That Lost Things
  412. A Make-Believe
  413. The Christmas Child
  414. A Christmas Prayer
  415. No End of No-Story
  416. Endnotes
  417. Colophon
  418. Uncopyright

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