Ella Higginson

  • I know a place where the sun is like gold,
      And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
    And down underneath is the loveliest nook,
      Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

    One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith,
      And one is for love, you know,
    And...

  • Ah me! I know how like a golden flower
    The Grand Ronde valley lies this August night,
    Locked in by dimpled hills where purple light
    Lies wavering. There at the sunset hour
    Sink downward, like a rainbow-tinted shower,
    A thousand colored rays, soft,...

  • Venus has lit her silver lamp
      Low in the purple West,
    Casting a soft and mellow light
      Upon the sea’s full breast;
    In one clear path—as if to guide
      Some pale, wayfaring guest.

    Far out, far out the restless bar
      Starts from a...

  • The trembling train clings to the leaning wall
      Of solid stone; a thousand feet below
    Sinks a black gulf; the sky hangs like a pall
      Upon the peaks of everlasting snow.

    Then of a sudden springs a rim of light,
      Curved like a silver sickle. High and...

  • Child with the hungry eyes,
      The pallid mouth and brow,
    And the lifted, asking hands,
      I am more starved than thou.

    I beg not on the street;
      But where the sinner stands,
    In secret place, I beg
      Of God, with outstretched hands.

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