Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Egypt's might is tumbled
Down a-down the deeps of though;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,

As Christ the Lord was passing by, He came, one night, to a cottage door
He came, a poor man, to the poor; He had no bed whereon to lie
He asked in vain for a crust of bread, Standing there in the frozen blast
The door was locked an...

Some hang above the tombs,    Some weep in empty rooms,    I, when the iris blooms,    Remember
I, when the cyclamen    Opens her buds again,    Rejoice a moment-then    Remember

O
ET me be in loving nice,
Dainty, fine, and o’er precise,
That I may charm my charmàd

The lake lay blue below the hill
O'er it, as I looked, there
Across the waters, cold and still,
A bird whose wings were palest blue

OD
AY in my heart
Fear and affright
My thoughts are the Disciples when they fled,  My words the words that priest and soldier said,  My deed the spear to desecrate the dead

ER of God
no lady thou:   Common woman of common
Our Lady ladies call thee now,   But Christ was never of gentle birth;   A common man of the common earth
For God’s ways are not as our ways:   The noblest lady in the

RN in, my lord, she said ; As it were the Father of Sin I have hated the Father of the Dead, The slayer of my kin ; By the Father of the Living led, Turn in, my lord, turn in
We were foes of old ; thy touch was cold, But mine is warm as life ...

Country roads are yellow and brown
We mend the roads in London town
Never a hansom dare come nigh,  Never a cart goes rolling by
An unwonted silence steals  In between the turning wheels

I ask of thee, love, nothing but relief
Thou canst not bring the old days back again;
For I was happy then,
Not knowing heavenly joy, not knowing grief

The clouds had made a crimson
Above the mountains high
The stormy sun was going
In a stormy sky

Many a flower have I seen blossom, Many a bird for me will sing
Never heard I so sweet a singer, Never saw I so fair a thing
She is a bird, a bird that blossoms, She is a flower, a flower that sings; And I a flower when I behold her, And...