Mathilde Blind

  • Ah! I shall kill myself with dreams!
      These dreams that softly lap me round
    Through trance-like hours in which meseems
      That I am swallowed up and drowned;
    Drowned in your love, which flows o’er me
      As o’er the seaweed flows the sea.

    In...

  • The Dead abide with us! Though stark and cold
    Earth seems to grip them, they are with us still:
    They have forged our chains of being for good or ill;
    And their invisible hands these hands yet hold.
    Our perishable bodies are the mould
    In which their strong...

  • Between the sandhills and the sea
      A narrow strip of silver sand,
      Whereon a little maid doth stand,
    Who picks up shells continually,
    Between the sandhills and the sea.

    Far as her wondering eyes can reach,
      A vastness heaving gray in gray...