George MacDonald

The Poetical Works of George MacDonald

Volume II

First published
1893
Length
83,000 words, about 6 hours' reading

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The collected poems: parables, ballads, songs and poems for children.

Contents

  1. Parables
    1. The Man of Songs
    2. The Hills
    3. The Journey
    4. The Tree's Prayer
    5. Were I a Skilful Painter
    6. My Room
    7. Death and Birth
    8. Love's Ordeal
    9. The Lost Soul
    10. The Three Horses
    11. The Golden Key
    12. Somnium Mystici
    13. The Sangreal
    14. The Failing Track
    15. Tell Me
    16. Brother Artist!
    17. After an Old Legend
    18. A Meditation of St. Eligius
    19. The Early Bird
    20. Sir Lark and King Sun
    21. The Owl and the Bell
    22. A Mammon-Marriage
    23. A Song in the Night
    24. Love's History
    25. The Lark and the Wind
    26. A Dead House
    27. 'Bell upon Organ
    28. Master and Boy
    29. The Clock of the Universe
    30. The Thorn in the Flesh
    31. Lycabas
  2. Ballads
    1. The Unseen Model
    2. The Homeless Ghost
    3. Abu Midjan
    4. The Thankless Lady
    5. Legend of the Corrievrechan
    6. The Dead Hand
  3. Minor Ditties
    1. In the Night
    2. The Giver
    3. False Prophets
    4. Life-Weary
    5. Approaches
    6. Travellers' Song
    7. Love is Strength
    8. Coming
    9. Song of the Waiting Dead
    10. Obedience
    11. A Song in the Night
    12. De Profundis
    13. Blind Sorrow
  4. Motes in the Sun
    1. Angels
    2. The Father's Worshippers
    3. A Birthday-Wish
    4. To Any One
    5. Waiting
    6. Lost but Safe
    7. Much and More
    8. Hope and Patience
    9. A Better Thing
    10. A Prisoner
    11. To My Lord and Master
    12. To One Unsatisfied
    13. To My God
    14. Triolet
    15. The Word of God
    16. Eine Kleine Predigt
    17. To the Life Eternal
    18. Hope Deferred
    19. Forgiveness
    20. Dejection
    21. Appeal
  5. Poems for Children
    1. Lessons for a Child
    2. What Makes Summer?
    3. Mother Nature
    4. The Mistletoe
    5. Professor Noctutus
    6. Bird-Songs
    7. Riddles
    8. For My Grandchild
    9. Baby
    10. Up And-Down
    11. Up in the Tree
    12. A Baby-Sermon
    13. Little Bo-Peep
    14. Little Boy Blue
    15. Willie's Question
    16. King Cole
    17. Said and Did
    18. Dr. Doddridge's Dog
    19. The Girl That Lost Things
    20. A Make-Believe
    21. The Christmas Child
    22. A Christmas Prayer
    23. No End of No-Story
    24. A Threefold Cord
    25. Greville Matheson Macdonald
  6. A Threefold Cord
    1. The Haunted House
    2. In the Winter
    3. Christmas-Day, 1878
    4. The New Year
    5. Two Rondels
    6. Rondel
    7. Song
    8. Smoke
    9. To a Certain Critic
    10. Song
    11. A Cry
    12. From Home
    13. To My Mother Earth
    14. Thy Heart
    15. 0 Lord, How Happy!
    16. No Sign
    17. November, 1851
    18. Of One Who Died in Spring
    19. An Autumn Song
    20. Triolet
    21. I See Thee Not
    22. A Broken Prayer
    23. Come Down
    24. A Mood
    25. The Carpenter
    26. The Old Garden
    27. A Noonday Melody
    28. Who Lights the Fire?
    29. Who Would Have Thought?
    30. On a December Day
    31. Christmas Day, 1850
    32. To a February Primrose
    33. In February
    34. The True
    35. The Dwellers Therein
    36. Autumn's Gold
    37. Punishment
    38. Shew Us the Father
    39. The Pinafore
    40. The Prism
    41. Sleep
    42. Sharing
    43. In Bonds
    44. Hunger
    45. New Year's Eve: A Waking Dream
    46. From North Wales: To the Mother
    47. Come to Me
    48. A Fear
    49. The Lost House
    50. The Talk of the Echoes
    51. A Fragment
    52. The Goal
    53. The Healer
    54. Oh That a Wind
    55. A Vision of St. Eligius
    56. Of the Son of Man
    57. A Song-Sermon
    58. Rondel
    59. Words in the Night
    60. Consider the Ravens
    61. The Wind of the World
    62. Sabbath Bells
    63. Fighting
    64. After the Fashion of an Old Emblem
    65. A Prayer in Sickness
    66. Quiet Dead!
    67. Let Your Light So Shine
    68. Triolet
    69. The Souls' Rising
    70. Awake!
    71. To an Autograph-Hunter
    72. With a Copy of "in Memoriam."
    73. To E.m. II
    74. They are Blind
    75. When the Storm Was Proudest
    76. The Diver
    77. From Schiller
    78. To the Clouds
    79. Second Sight
    80. Not Understood
    81. The Dawn
    82. Galileo
    83. Subsidy
    84. The Prophet
    85. The Watcher
    86. The Beloved Disciple
    87. The Lily of the Valley
    88. Evil Influence
    89. Spoken of Several Philosophers
    90. Nature a Moral Power
    91. To June
    92. Summer
    93. On a Midge
    94. Steadfast
    95. Provision
    96. First Sight of the Sea
    97. On the Source of the Arve
    98. Confidence
    99. Fate
    100. Unrest
    101. One with Nature
    102. My Two Geniuses
    103. Sudden Calm
    104. Thou Also
    105. The Aurora Borealis
    106. The Human
    107. Written on a Stormy Night
    108. Reverence Waking Hope
    109. Born of Water
    110. To a Thunder-Cloud
    111. Sun and Moon
    112. Doubt Heralding Vision
    113. Life or Death?
    114. Lost and Found
    115. The Moon
    116. Truth, Not Form!
    117. God in Growth
    118. In a Churchyard
    119. Power
    120. Death
    121. That Holy Thing
    122. From Novalis
    123. What Man is There of You?
    124. O Wind of God
    125. Shall the Dead Praise Thee?
    126. A Year Song
    127. Song
    128. For Where Your Treasure is, There Will Your Heart be Also
    129. The Asthmatic Man to the Satan That Binds Him
    130. Song-Sermon
    131. Shadows
    132. A Winter Prayer
    133. Song of a Poor Pilgrim
    134. An Evening Prayer
    135. Song-Sermon
    136. A Dream-Song
    137. Christmas, 1880
    138. Rondel
    139. The Sparrow
    140. December 23, 1879
    141. Song-Prayer: After King David
    142. December 27, 1879
    143. Sunday
    144. December 28, 1879
    145. Song-Sermon
    146. The Donkey in the Cart to the Horse in the Carriage
    147. Room to Roam
    148. Cottage Songs
    149. I.—by the Cradle
    150. Ii.—sweeping the Floor
    151. Iii.—washing the Clothes
    152. Iv.—drawing Water
    153. V.—cleaning the Windows
    154. The Wind and the Moon
    155. The Foolish Harebell
    156. Song
    157. An Improvisation
    158. Equity
    159. Contrition
    160. To ——
    161. To a Sister
    162. The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs
  7. Scots Songs and Ballads
    1. Annie She's Dowie
    2. O Lassie Ayont the Hill!
    3. The Bonny, Bonny Dell
    4. Nannie Braw
    5. Ower the Hedge
    6. Gaein and Comin
    7. A Sang O' Zion
    8. Time and Tide
    9. The Waesome Carl
    10. The Mermaid
    11. The Yerl O' Waterydeck
    12. The Twa Gordons
    13. The Last Wooin
    14. Halloween
    15. The Laverock
    16. Godly Ballants
    17. I.—this Side an' That
    18. Ii.—the Twa Baubees
    19. Iii.—wha's My Neibour?
    20. Iv.—him Wi' the Bag
    21. V.—the Coorse Cratur
    22. The Deil's Forhooit his Ain
    23. The Auld Fisher
    24. The Herd and the Mavis
    25. A Lown Nicht
    26. The Home of Death
    27. Triolet
    28. Win' That 'Blaws
    29. A Song of Hope
    30. The Burnie
    31. Hame
    32. The Sang O' the Auld Fowk
    33. The Auld Man's Prayer
    34. Granny Canty
    35. Time
    36. What the Auld Fowk are Thinkin
    37. Greitna, Father
    38. I Ken Something
    39. Mirls

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