Poems by Gerald Massey

O, proudly I stood in the rare Sunrise,
As the dawn of your beauty brake;
But I fear'd for t...

O many and many a day before we met,
I knew some spirit walked the world alone,
Awaiting the ...

Sweet Heaven! I do love a maiden,
Radiant, rare, and beauty-laden:
When she's near me, hea...

No jewelled beauty is my Love,
Yet in her earnest face
There's such a world of tenderness,
S...

All glorious as a Rainbow's birth,
She came in Spring-tide's golden hours;
When Heaven went h...

There lives a voice within me, a guest-angel of my heart,
And its sweet lispings win me, till...

Like those Ambassadors of old, that went
To the far Orient land, with kingly gifts
Of Gold, ...

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth,
As Love comes brooding down on human hearts,
W...