George MacDonald

A Hidden Life and Other Poems

First published
1864
Length
56,000 words, about 4 hours' reading

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The story in verse of a Scottish farmer’s son, with other poems.

Contents

  1. Poems
    1. A Hidden Life
    2. The Homeless Ghost
    3. Abu Midjan
    4. An Old Story
    5. A Book of Dreams
    6. To Aurelio Saffi
    7. Sonnet
    8. A Memorial of Africa
    9. A Gift
    10. The Man of Songs
    11. Better Things
    12. The Journey
    13. Prayer
    14. Rest
    15. Light
    16. To A.j. Scott
    17. Were I a Skilful Painter
    18. If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
    19. Blessed are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth
    20. The Hills
    21. I Know What Beauty is
    22. I Would I Were a Child
    23. The Lost Soul
    24. A Dream Within a Dream
    25. After an Old Legend
    26. The Tree's Prayer
    27. A Story of the Sea-Shore
    28. My Heart
    29. O Do Not Leave Me
    30. The Holy Snowdrops
    31. To My Sister
    32. Oh Thou of Little Faith!
    33. Longing
    34. A Boy's Grief
    35. The Child-Mother
    36. Love's Ordeal
    37. A Prayer for the Past
    38. Far and Near
    39. My Room
    40. Sympathy
    41. Little Elfie
    42. The Thank Offering
    43. The Burnt Offering
    44. Four Sonnets
    45. Sonnet
    46. Eighteen Sonnets
    47. Death and Birth
  2. Early Poems
    1. Longing
    2. My Eyes Make Pictures
    3. Death
    4. Lessons for a Child
    5. Hope Deferred
    6. The Death of the Old Year
    7. A Song in a Dream
    8. A Thanksgiving
  3. The Gospel Women
    1. The Mother Mary
    2. The Woman That Cried in the Crowd
    3. The Mother Op Zebedee's Children
    4. The Syrophenician Woman
    5. The Widow of Nain
    6. The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound
    7. The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd
    8. The Widow with the Two Mites
    9. The Women Who Ministered unto Him
    10. Pilate's Wife
    11. The Woman of Samaria
    12. Mary Magdalene
    13. The Woman in the Temple
    14. Martha
    15. Mary
    16. The Woman That Was a Sinner

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