July Challenge - Day 22
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:29 pmFrom The Inequity of the Fathers Upon the Children
Now sometimes in a dream
My heart goes out of me
To build and scheme,
Now sometimes in a dream
My heart goes out of me
To build and scheme,
July Challenge - Day 21
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:27 pmFrom What Would I Give?
What would I give for words, if only words would come;
But now in its misery my spirit has fallen dumb:
What would I give for words, if only words would come;
But now in its misery my spirit has fallen dumb:
July Challenge - Day 20
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:24 pmFrom Paradise
I saw the fourfold River flow,
And deep it was, with golden sand;
It flowed between a mossy land
With murmured music grave and low.
I saw the fourfold River flow,
And deep it was, with golden sand;
It flowed between a mossy land
With murmured music grave and low.
July Challenge - Day 18
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:20 pmFrom From House to Home
Beauty for ashes, oil of joy for grief,
Garment of praise for spirit of heaviness:
Altho' today I fade as doth a leaf,
Beauty for ashes, oil of joy for grief,
Garment of praise for spirit of heaviness:
Altho' today I fade as doth a leaf,
July Challenge - Day 17
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:15 pmFrom Amen
Lives are finished: time diminished:
Was the fallow field left unsown?
Will these buds be always unblown?
Lives are finished: time diminished:
Was the fallow field left unsown?
Will these buds be always unblown?
July Challenge - Day 16
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:13 pmFrom Man's Life is but a Working Day
Man's life is but a working day
Whose tasks are set aright:
A time to work, a time to pray,
And then a quiet night.
Man's life is but a working day
Whose tasks are set aright:
A time to work, a time to pray,
And then a quiet night.
July Challenge - Day 15
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:10 pmFrom The Gold of That Land is Good
I long for joy, O Lord, I long for gold,
I long for all Thou profferest to me,
I long for the unimagined manifold
I long for joy, O Lord, I long for gold,
I long for all Thou profferest to me,
I long for the unimagined manifold
July Challenge - Day 14
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:06 pmFrom Symbols
I watched a rosebud very long
Brought on my dew and sun and shower,
Waiting to see the perfect flower:
I watched a rosebud very long
Brought on my dew and sun and shower,
Waiting to see the perfect flower:
July Challenge - Day 12
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:01 pmFrom Twist Me a Crown of Wind-flowers
Alas! your crown of wind-flowers
Can never make you fly:
I twist them in a crown today,
And tonight they die.
Alas! your crown of wind-flowers
Can never make you fly:
I twist them in a crown today,
And tonight they die.
July Challenge - Day 11
Jul. 24th, 2026 08:58 pmFrom Summer is ended
To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose,
Scentless, colourless, this!
Will it ever be thus (who knows?)
To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose,
Scentless, colourless, this!
Will it ever be thus (who knows?)
July Challenge - Day 10
Jul. 24th, 2026 08:56 pmFrom Quinquagesina
Love is alone the worthy law of love:
All other laws have presupposed a taint:
Love is the law from kindled saint to saint,
Love is alone the worthy law of love:
All other laws have presupposed a taint:
Love is the law from kindled saint to saint,
July Challenge - Day 9
Jul. 24th, 2026 08:53 pmFrom Alas my Lord
But when our strength
Shall be made weakness, and our bodies clay,
Hold Thou us fast, and give us sleep til day.
But when our strength
Shall be made weakness, and our bodies clay,
Hold Thou us fast, and give us sleep til day.
July Challenge - Day 5
Jul. 24th, 2026 08:46 pmFrom The Prince's Progress
"Spell-bound she watches in one white room,
and is patient for thy sake."
"Spell-bound she watches in one white room,
and is patient for thy sake."
July Challenge - Day 23
Jul. 24th, 2026 09:30 pmfrom Serenade
Come, wander forth with me! the moon on high
Shines proudly in a flood of brilliancy.
Come, wander forth with me! the moon on high
Shines proudly in a flood of brilliancy.