Victorian Women Writers Project

The Prophecy of Saint Oran and Other Poems. Blind, Mathilde, 1841–1896. Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury.

To a Memory.

Contents.

• The Prophecy of St. Oran 1
• Poems:
  • Love‐Trilogy 69
  • Dead Love 76
  • A Dream 77
  • Love’s Phantom 79
  • Snow or Snowdrops? 80
  • Pauper Poet’s Song 82
  • Sundered Paths 84
  • Lines 86
  • Love and the Muse 88
  • Song 90
  • Song 91
  • In Spring 92
  • Renunciation 94
  • The Abandoned 103
• page: vi
• Sonnets:
  • Cleave Thou the Waves 111
  • Manchester by Night 112
  • To the Obelisk During the Great Frost, 1881 113
  • To Memory 114
  • Despair 115
  • Sleep 116
  • Haunted Streets 117
  • Αναγκη 118
  • The Dead 119
  • Christmas Eve 120
  • New Year’s Eve 121
• Poems:
  • Perfect Union (W.K.C., 3rd March,1879) 125
  • The Street‐Children’s Dance 129