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A Hidden Life and Other Poems

by George MacDonald

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication — I
  3. 3The Homeless Ghost
  4. 4Abu Midjan
  5. 5An Old Story
  6. 6A Book of Dreams
  7. 7To Aurelio Saffi
  8. 8Sonnet
  9. 9A Memorial of Africa
  10. 10A Gift
  11. 11The Man of Songs
  12. 12Better Things
  13. 13The Journey
  14. 14Prayer
  15. 15Rest
  16. 16To A.J. Scott. With the Following Poem
  17. 17Light
  18. 18To A.J. Scott
  19. 19Were I a Skilful Painter
  20. 20If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
  21. 21Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth
  22. 22The Hills
  23. 23I Know What Beauty Is
  24. 24I Would I Were a Child
  25. 25The Lost Soul
  26. 26A Dream Within a Dream
  27. 27After an Old Legend
  28. 28The Tree’s Prayer
  29. 29A Story of the Sea-Shore
  30. 30My Heart
  31. 31O Do Not Leave Me
  32. 32The Holy Snowdrops
  33. 33To My Sister
  34. 34Oh Thou of Little Faith!
  35. 35Longing
  36. 36A Boy’s Grief
  37. 37The Child-Mother
  38. 38Love’s Ordeal
  39. 39A Prayer for the Past
  40. 40Far and Near
  41. 41My Room
  42. 42Sympathy
  43. 43Little Elfie
  44. 44The Thank Offering
  45. 45The Burnt Offering
  46. 46Sonnet
  47. 47Death and Birth
  48. 48Early Poems
  49. 49My Eyes Make Pictures
  50. 50Death
  51. 51Lessons for a Child
  52. 52Hope Deferred
  53. 53The Death of the Old Year
  54. 54A Song in a Dream
  55. 55A Thanksgiving
  56. 56The Gospel Women
  57. 57II — The Woman That Cried in the Crowd
  58. 58III — The Mother Op Zebedee’s Children
  59. 59IV — The Syrophenician Woman
  60. 60V — The Widow of Nain
  61. 61VI — The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound
  62. 62VII — The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd
  63. 63VIII — The Widow With the Two Mites
  64. 64IX — The Women Who Ministered Unto Him
  65. 65X — Pilate’s Wife
  66. 66XI — The Woman of Samaria
  67. 67XII — Mary Magdalene
  68. 68XIII — The Woman in the Temple
  69. 69XIV — Martha
  70. 70XV — Mary
  71. 71XVI — The Woman That Was a Sinner

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