Ada Cambridge
The Manor House and Other Poems
(1875)
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About the print version:
The Manor House and Other Poems
by
Ada Cambridge
London
Daldy, Isbister, & Co.
56, Ludgate Hill
1875
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Contents.
The Old Manor House
A Dream of Venice
The Hands That Hang Down
Learn
Dawnlight on the Sea
Empty
The Season
"This Enlightened Age"
A Story at Dusk
A Sermon
The Last Battle of the Cid
Tired
Lord Nevil's Advice
A Sigh in the Night
The Midnight Mass
The Old Maid's Story
The Easter Decorations
Dead
Recollection
The Dawn
The Baptistry
The Soldier's Grave
All-Saint's Day (1867)
All-Saint's Day (1868)
Advent Hymn
Autumn
The Legend of Lady Gertrude
The Coo of the Cushat
Looking in the Fire
Grey
Home-Sick
Practising the Anthem
Awake
An Anniversary
By the Camp Fire
Unstrung
In Memoriam
The Silence in the Church
Holy Communion
Evensong
The Resting-Place
"After Our Likeness"
Aunt Dorothy's Lecture
The Kind Word
The Crown of Thorns
Seed-Time and Harvest
The Candle of the Lord
THE OLD MANOR HOUSE.
AN old house, crumbling half away, all barnacled and lichen-grown,
Of saddest, mellowest, softest grey,--with a grand history of its own--
Grand with the work and strife and tears of more than half a thousand years.
Such delicate, tender, russet tones of colour on its gables slept,
With streaks of gold betwixt the stones, where wind-sown flowers and mosses
crept:
Wild grasses waved in sun and shade o'er terrace slab and balustrade.
Around the clustered chimneys clung the ivy's wreathed and braided threads,
And dappled lights and shadows flung across the sombre browns and reds;
Where'er the graver's hand had been, it spread its tendrils bright and green.
Far-stretching branches shadowed deep the ...
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