LAYS AND LEGENDS
BYE. NESBIT
LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1886All rights reservedTO TWO WOMEN.
- YOU who bore the pain and care
- Only women have to bear,
- You who staked your life to win
- Life for me, to love you in,
- You who loved me all these years,
- With your kisses, prayers, and tears.—
- You whose being gave to earth
- All that gives my life its worth,
- You who gave me love and praise
- In the darkest of my days:
- To you both where far you stand,
- See, I reach out heart and hand.
- Heart that love of you enfolds,
- Hand that this poor nosegay holds:
- If some weeds about it twine,
- Cast them back, for they are mine;
- All the flowers were set by you,
- And within your garden grew.
CONTENTS.
- TEKEL 1
- THE MOAT HOUSE 18
- UNOFFICIAL 60
- PESSIMISM 64
- GHOSTS 66
- THE DEAD TO THE LIVING 68
- THE SPHINX 73
- QUIETA NE MOVETE 77
- MICROCOSM 79
- THE HUSBAND OF TO-DAY 80
- THE WIFE OF ALL AGES 82
- TWO VOICES 84
- VIES MANQUÉES 91
- A LAST APPEAL 93
- OVER AND DONE 96
- OVER AND UNDONE 97
- CHRISTMAS 98
- NEW YEAR SONG 100
- THE SINGING OF THE MAGNIFICAT 102
- LOVE'S SUICIDE 112
- CHRISTMAS ROSES 114
- A CHOICE 115
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- A LIFE'S STORY 116
- ABSOLUTION 119
- CUL-DE-SAC 134
- THE MOORS 136
- SONG 137
- RICHBOROUGH CASTLE 138
- AUGUST 142
- THE LAST ENVOY 145
- BABY'S BIRTHDAY 148
- JANUARY 150
- CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS IN THE CITY 151
- THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA 153
- TO HIS LADY 155
- AT THE FEAST 156
- SPRING SONG 158
- NEW YEAR 161
- A STAR IN THE EAST 162
- PARTING 164
- TWO CHRISTMAS EVES 165
- FOR THE NEW YEAR 179
- THE FERRY 181
- LOVERS' QUARRELS 183
- WHEN! 184
- SONG 187
- QUAND MÊME 188
- LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE 189
- HOPES 190
- A BROWN STUDY 192
- A GOOD-BYE 194
- ‘UNTIL THE DAWN’ 196
