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Susan Coolidge
Susan Coolidge was born Sarah Chauncey Woolsey in 1835 in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War, after which she began to write. She lived with her parents in their house in Rhode Island until she died.
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Last Verses - Susan Coolidge
Susan Coolidge
Last Verses
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4064066154219
Table of Contents
HELEN KELLER
A CLOUD OF WITNESSES
COR CORDIUM
MARTHA
CAEN 1894
TEMPERAMENTS
THE HOLY NAME
I AM THE WAY
HER HEART WAS LIKE A GENEROUS FIRE (S. P. C.)
THE LEGEND OF THE ALMOST SAVED FROM THE RUSSIAN
TWO ANGELS
LIMITATION
THE MIRACLE OF FRIENDSHIP
ROSE TERRY COOKE
INTO THE DEEP
THROUGH THE CLOUD
NEARER HOME
ROOTED
THE BURIED STATUE
FAR AND NEAR
GREECE
IF YOUTH COULD KNOW
THE SOUL’S CLIMATE
THE BETTER PRAYER
SUPPLY
A THOUGHT
HOLGER DANSKE
VASSOS
MUTINY
UNFORGOTTEN
DENIAL
ASTORIA BY TWILIGHT
THE PRICE OF FREYA
A SUMMER SONG
AN EVENING PRIMROSE
A ROSE IN A GLASS
SNOWBOUND
SHELTERED
THE OLD PINE
IN THE FOREFRONT
INTERRUPTED
SAINT CHRISTOPHER
CONQUEROR J. S. W.
THE YEAR AND THE CENTURY
A. V. C. [ June, 1898 ]
THE LAND THAT IS VERY FAR OFF
THE HEAVENLY AIRS
IN THE FOG
THE PORCH OF LIFE
THE LIGHTHOUSE
ONCE AND FOREVER
LIGHTS
ON THE LAWN
IF ONLY
PRELUDE
WHOM NO MAN HATH HIRED
ON EASTER EVEN
PALM SUNDAY
THE PASCHAL FEAST
A NEW YEAR PRAYER
HOW SHALL I PRAY?
GOOD-NIGHT
A SPRING PARABLE
THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE THE STRONG MOUNTAINS
LIVING OR DEAD
A MORNING SONG
THE STONE OF THE SEPULCHRE
TOO LITTLE AND TOO MUCH
THE MESSENGER WITH THE BOW-STRING
RELEASED
A PARADISE SONG
LITTLE BY LITTLE
TWO YEARS
TEMPERED
VIRGINIA
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
HELEN KELLER
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BEHIND her triple prison-bars shut in
She sits, the whitest soul on earth to-day.
No shadowing stain, no whispered hint of sin,
Into that sanctuary finds the way.
There enters only clear and proven truth
Apportioned for her use by loving hands
And winnowed from all knowledge of all lands
To satisfy her ardent thirst of youth.
Like a strange alabaster mask her face,
Rayless and sightless, set in patience dumb,
Until like quick electric currents come
The signals of life into her lonely place;
Then, like a lamp just lit, an inward gleam
Flashes within the mask’s opacity,
The features glow and dimple suddenly,
And fun and tenderness and sparkle seem
To irradiate the lines once dull and blind,
While the white slender fingers reach and cling
With quick imploring gestures, questioning
The mysteries and the meanings:—to her mind
The world is not the sordid world we know;
It is a happy and benignant spot
Where kindness reigns, and jealousy is not,
And men move softly, dropping as they go
The golden fruit of knowledge for all to share.
And Love is King, and Heaven is very near,
And God to whom each separate soul is dear
Makes fatherly answer to each whispered prayer.
Ah, little stainless soul, shut in so close,
May never hint of doubt creep in to be
A shadow on the calm security
Which wraps thee, as its fragrance wraps a rose.
A CLOUD OF WITNESSES
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ON Calais sands the breakers roar
In fierce and foaming track;
The screaming sea-gulls dip and soar,
White seen against the black;
And shuddering wind and furling sail
Are making ready for the gale.
Ho, keeper of the Calais Light!
See that your lamps burn free;
For, if they should go out to-night,
There will be wrecks at sea.
Fill them and trim them with due care,
For there is tempest in the air.
"Go out? My lamps go out, you say?
What words are on your lips?
There, in the offing far away,
Are sailing countless ships,
Beyond my ken, beyond my sight,
But all are watching Calais Light.
"If but a single lamp should fail,
A single flame burn dim,
How could they ride the gathering gale,
Or justly steer and trim?
To right, to left, would equal be,
There are no road-marks in the sea.
"I should not hear their drowning cry,
Or see the ship go down,
And weeks and months might pass us by,
Ere came to Calais town
The word—‘A ship was lost one night,
And all for want of Calais Light.’
"Here in my tower, my lamps in row,
I sit the long hours through;
There is no soul to mark or know
If I my duty do;
Yet oftentimes I seem to see
A world of eyes all bent on me!
"Go out! My lamps go out! alas!
It were a woeful day
If ever it should come to pass
That I must live to say,
A ship went down in storm and night,
Because there failed it Calais Light."
Ah, Christian, in your watch-tower set,
Fill all your lamps and trim;
For though there seem no watchers, yet
Far in the darkness dim,
Where souls are tossing out of view,
A hundred eyes are fixed on you!
COR CORDIUM
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ALL diamonded with glittering stars
The vast blue arch of air;
Pent in behind these mortal bars
We strain our eyes to where,
Oh noblest heart, thou walkest apart
Amid thy heavenly kin.
Though blinded with the veils of sense,
We may not look within.
Oh eyes so tender with command!
Oh eloquent lips and true,
Whose speech fell like a quickening fire,
Fell like a healing dew!
Oh zeal so strong to right the wrong,
Oh rich, abounding heart!
Oh stintless, tireless, kindest hand,—
God bless thee where thou art!
Not thine the common fate to live
Through life’s long weary days,
And