Poems by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Dost mind the summer day when first we met
Upon the crystal pathway of a lake
Paved with white ...

On a night long ago,
When the midsummer's glow
Italia's land was enchanting,
Down her deep T...

Fiery fetters fiercely bound me,
Globes of golden fire rolled round me,
Jets of violet-colore...

By frozen rills
Among the hills
Was smiling April lost,
Where winter stern
His icy urn
Had ...

When the beautiful elder-flowers are drifting their summer snow
Over the warm, green meadows, ...

I Oh, whither art thou hast'ning in thy wild and wondrous flight,
Fair stranger with the silv...

Queen of beauty, through all ages,
Queen of love in storied pages, --
Cleopatra, --star of Eg...

Christmas-Eve! And all unruffled
Dumb white spectral billows grow,
Till the city's heart is mu...

"Do you believe in Santa Claus?"
To his little sister cried
A bright-eyed boy; there was a paus...

Six little feet to cover,
Six little hands to fill,
Tumbling out in the clover,
Stumbling o...

"The night is far spent, the day is at hand."--ROMANS xiii. 12. Watchmen, along the wards of T...

Angel faces watch my pillow, angel voices haunt my sleep,
And upon the winds of midnight shini...