What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through,

Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do;

Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of all.

What would I give for words, if only words would come;

But now in its misery my spirit has fallen dumb:

Oh, merry friends, go your own way, I have never a word to say.

What would I give for tears, not smiles but scalding tears,

To wash the black mark clean, and to thaw the frost of years,

To wash the stain ingrain and to make me clean again.

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• Table of Contents
• Goblin Market
• In The Round Tower At Jhansi
• Dream Land
• At Home
• A Triad
• Love From The North
• Winter Rain
• Cousin Kate
• Noble Sisters
• Spring
• The Lambs Of Grasmere, 1860
• A Birthday
• Remember
• After Death
• An End
• My Dream
• Song: Oh Roses For the Flush of Youth
• The Hour And The Ghost
• A Summer Wish
• An Apple Gathering
• Song
• Maude Clare
• Echo
• My Secret
• Another Spring
• A Peal Of Bells
• Fata Morgana
• 'No, Thank You, John'
• May
• A Pause Of Thought
• Twilight Calm
• Wife To Husband
• Three Seasons
• Mirage
• Shut Out
• Sound Sleep
• Song ('She sat and sang alway')
• Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')
• Dead Before Death
• Bitter For Sweet
• Sister Maude
• Rest
• The First Spring Day
• The Convent Threshold
• Up-Hill
• Devotional Pieces: 'The Love Of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge'
• Devotional Pieces: 'A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break'
• Devotional Pieces: A Better Resurrection
• Devotional Pieces: Advent
• Devotional Pieces: The Three Enemies
• Devotional Pieces: The One Certainty
• Devotional Pieces: Christian And Jew
• Devotional Pieces: Sweet Death
• Devotional Pieces: Symbols
• Devotional Pieces: 'Consider The Lilies Of The Field'
• Devotional Pieces: The World
• Devotional Pieces: A Testimony
• Devotional Pieces: Sleep At Sea
• Devotional Pieces: From House To Home
• Devotional Pieces: Old And New Year Ditties
• Devotional Pieces: Amen
• The Prince's Progress
• Maiden-Song
• Jessie Cameron
• Spring Quiet
• The Poor Ghost
• A Portrait
• Dream-Love
• Twice
• Songs In A Cornfield
• A Year's Windfalls
• The Queen Of Hearts
• One Day
• A Bird's-Eye View
• Light Love
• A Dream
• A Ring Posy
• Beauty Is Vain
• Lady Maggie
• What Would I Give
• The Bourne
• Summer
• Autumn
• The Ghost's Petition
• Memory
• A Royal Princess
• Shall I Forget?
• Vanity Of Vanities
• L. E. L.
• Life And Death
• Bird Or Beast?
• Eve
• Grown And Flown
• A Farm Walk
• Somewhere Or Other
• A Chill
• A Child's Talk In April
• Gone For Ever
• Under The Rose
• Devotional Pieces: Despised And Rejected
• Devotional Pieces: Long Barren
• Devotional Pieces: If Only
• Devotional Pieces: Dost Thou Not Care?
• Devotional Pieces: Weary In Well-Doing
• Devotional Pieces: Martyrs' Song
• Devotional Pieces: After This The Judgement
• Devotional Pieces: Good Friday
• Devotional Pieces: The Lowest Place
• Death's Chill Between
• Heart's Chill Between
• Repining
• Sit Down In The Lowest Room
• My Friend
• Last Night
• Consider
• Helen Grey
• By The Waters Of Babylon
• Seasons
• Mother Country
• A Smile And A Sigh
• Dead Hope
• Autumn Violets
• 'They Desire A Better Country'
• The Offering Of The New Law, The One Oblation Once Offered
• Conference Between Christ, The Saints, And The Soul
• Come Unto Me
• Jesus, Do I Love Thee?
• I Know You Not
• 'Before The Paling Of The Stars'
• Easter Even
• Paradise: In A Dream
• Within The Veil
• Paradise: In A Symbol
• Amor Mundi
• Who Shall Deliver Me?
• If
• Twilight Night
• Sources