Poems of the Household Author:Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company Subjects: Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text... more ». When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A VANISHED HOPE. C WEET with the scents of the summer, White with the dew and the sun, Wee as the robes of the fairies, She folded them one by one. Royally fair was the raiment, Though none but herself might see How the heart with the hand had labored For the Prince who was yet to be ! Into those tiny garments Was more than of needle wrought -- Hours of loving fancies, Beautiful flights of thought. 24 A Vanished Hope. By lane and road were burning, In splendor of crimson dyes, Maple and elm and sumach, Shaming the sunset skies. She smiled from her chamber window : "Ah, fade, bright leaves ! " she said, " For I 'll be glad with my baby, When all the leaves are dead !" Cold is the heaven above her, Cloudy and dark the day, As she looks again in sorrow That is slow to pass away. Useless the treasures of linen, And the cobweb frosts of lace; Her babe on mother's bosom Found briefest resting-place. All night she hears the north wind, She feels the rain and the snow; Whenever they fall on her darling, Over her heart they go. A Vanished Hope. 25 Sleep hath no fetter to bind her, Ever its spell will break; At the dream of a touch like a roseleaf, The grief returns to ache. Comfort her not with the angels, Since -- changing her day to night -- Some pitiless angel carried Her firstborn out of her sight! LOVE-LORN. IN her cage by my window swings a bird, A beautiful bird with golden wing, And all day l...« less