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May 12 2021

Home of Color and of Light

Posted on May 12, 2021 by laffrado
The Home of Color and of Light: Remembering the Local Literary Legacy of Ella Higginson
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Poems by Book

  • When the Birds Go North Again, 1898
  • Four-Leaf Clover, 1901
  • The Voice of April-Land, 1903

Pacific Northwest Poetry

  • “Dawn”
  • “The Mists of Puget Sound”
  • “The Evergreen State”
  • “The Rhododendron Bells”
  • “Midnight on Brooklyn Bridge”
  • “The Lamp in the West”
  • “The Sea of Opal”
  • “Crossing the Plains.”
  • “Soul-Sick Am I”
  • “The Cities of the Pioneers”
  • “The Opal Sea”
  • “The State of Washington”
  • “The Pioneers of the West”
  • “A White Night”
  • “The Lady of Poppies”
  • “Sunrise on the Willamette”
  • “Dawn on the Willamette”
  • “The Still Willamette River”
  • “To One Leaving for Sweden”
  • “To an Enemy”
  • “The Room by the Sea”
  • “The Snow”
  • “The Wreck of the Premier”
  • “The Low Brown Hills”
  • “April Night”
  • “The Vanishing Race”
  • “The Opal-Sea”
  • “The New West”
  • “Semiahmoo Spit”
  • “February Night”
  • “The Grand Ronde Valley”
  • “The Chinook Wind”
  • “House-of-the-Stars”
  • “The Blue Sea Calls”
  • “The Fog Horn”
  • “Once More to Voyage to the Purple West”

Religious and Moral Poetry

  • “To Each His Need”
  • “All Hail!”
  • “To One”
  • “For Honor and For God”
  • “Easter Dawn”
  • “The Simple Creed of Christ”
  • “Care”
  • “Why Should the Spirit Be Vain?”
  • “What Thou Must See and Hear”
  • “Fame”
  • “Humility”
  • “The Lost Voice”
  • “If You Only Knew”
  • “The Novices of Heaven”
  • “She Prays”
  • “The Toiler Speaks”
  • “The Mirror”
  • “The Call in the Dark”
  • “The Lady of High Degree”
  • “My Vineyard which was Mine is behind Me”
  • “A Prayer of the Heart”
  • “What Dost Thou See, O Night?”
  • “Undaunted”
  • “A Thank-Offering”
  • “Beggars”
  • “God’s Creed”
  • “The Way Thou Singest”
  • “Eve”
  • “I Thank Thee, God”
  • “Despair”
  • “The Petaled Thorn”
  • “Have Mercy Upon Us”
  • “Two Prayers”
  • “Two”
  • “The Czar of All the Russias”
  • “Always Some One Below”
  • “That Other Prayer”
  • “Enduring”
  • “The Summons”
  • “Thanksgiving”
  • “The Holy Dawn”
  • “The Statue”
  • “The Message”
  • “The Mother Prays”
  • “Surrender in Victory”
  • “A Parable”
  • “Laurels”
  • “Love-Song of the Wanderer”
  • “At Midnight Mass”
  • “His Star”
  • “I Am So Sorry”
  • “Mother’s Picture”
  • “The Vision”
  • “Forget-Me-Nots”
  • “Thanksgiving”
  • “A Prayer”
  • “Give Content to Others”
  • “The Song-Prayer”

Love Poetry

  • “When I Was Yours and You Were Mine”
  • “Wearing Out Love”
  • “A Prayer”
  • “Temptation”
  • “The Two Angels”
  • “It Must Not Be”
  • “Where Can She Be?”
  • “Dreams of the Past”
  • “Christmas Eve”
  • “The Snow-White Dove”
  • “A Fancy”
  • “The Rose”
  • “The Trembling Heart”
  • “Verily, the Dead are Avenged”
  • “Parting”
  • “Hey, Ho, When the Heart is Low”
  • “The Sailor’s Sweetheart”
  • “The Lord and the Peasant Maid”
  • “How I Love Thee”
  • “The Guests of the Heart”
  • “Once Sappho Sang”
  • “The Nights of June”
  • “The House that Once was Blessed of Thee”
  • “The Cry of the Drowned”
  • “Betrothal”
  • “The Childless Mother’s Lullaby”
  • “I Could Not Be a Nun”
  • “Foreordination”
  • “The Falling Star”
  • “Finis”
  • “The Tide is Low”
  • “After Death”
  • “If I Should Die”
  • “Reaping”
  • “Childless”
  • “Serenade”
  • “Love-Song”
  • “The Dead”
  • “Hate”
  • “Adrift and Anchored”
  • “The Passing of the Hours”
  • “Love”
  • “Lost”
  • “Going Blind”
  • “He to Her”
  • “A Dream of Sappho”
  • “He Speaks at Parting”
  • “A Dream of Cleopatra”
  • “Being so Bereft”
  • “In Absence”
  • “The Wayfarer”
  • “Love’s Trembling-Cup”
  • “Fare-Thee-Well”
  • “Then and Now”
  • “Then You’ll Remember Me”
  • “To M. B.”
  • “My Thoughts are Birds”
  • “Triolet”
  • “Love Learns Slowly”
  • “Burial”
  • “A Mood”
  • “A Threnody”
  • “Love, the Firefly”
  • “The Yellow Star of Love”
  • “Song to a Lute”

Nature Poetry

  • “Four-Leaf Clover”
  • “When the Birds Go North Again”
  • “Yet Am I Not For Pity”
  • “The Lost.”
  • “The Balm-of-Gilead”
  • “In a Valley of Peace”
  • “After Summer Days”
  • “March”
  • “March”
  • “April”
  • “April”
  • “The Voice of April-Land”
  • “June Night”
  • “June”
  • “June Rain”
  • “June Night”
  • “August”
  • “September”
  • “October”
  • “November”
  • “December”
  • “My Sunset Robin Lover”
  • “Up, My Heart, and Sing”
  • “Riches”
  • “When the Large Moon Comes”
  • “The Wind and the Rain”
  • “The Pathway of Souls”
  • “Ought-To-Do City”
  • “Bloom-Time”
  • “Dreams”
  • “The Sea”
  • “An Empty-Handed Month”
  • “The Great Mother”
  • “Song of the Sea-Shell”
  • “Shelley”
  • “To Her the Blessed Sleep”
  • “Remembrance”
  • “The Bad Dandelions”
  • “The Little Wave Maidens”
  • “The Spent Year”
  • “Storm”
  • “The Meadow-Lark”
  • “A Prayer”
  • “We Two in Arcadie”
  • “Dream-Time”
  • “The Long Ago”
  • “Moonrise in the Rockies”
  • “Two Days”
  • “When I Am Dead”
  • “The Poppy Land”
  • “Cradle-Song of the Fisherman’s Wife”
  • “Moods”
  • “The Lingering of the Flowers”
  • “Christmas Eve”
  • “The Poet and the Star”
  • “Beside the Sea”
  • “Where Hudson Sweeps Between the Hills”
  • “The ‘Dropping-Song’ of the Mocking-Bird”
  • “The Awakening”
  • “An Autumn Day”
  • “Indian Summer”
  • “Delilah”
  • “A Perfect Day”
  • “A Dream”
  • “A Sonnet”
  • “The Last Message of Summer”
  • “Night”
  • “Ebb-Tide”
  • “The Coming of Spring”
  • “The Little Girl of Violet-Land”
  • “The Star”
  • “In Wake-Robin Land”
  • “The Path of Gold”
  • “The Rose of Day”
  • “Midwinter Dream”
  • “Annie Lisle”
  • “The Sweet, Low Speech of the Rain”
  • “Sleep”
  • “The Darkest Hour”
  • “An Easter Love-Song”
  • “In the Marsh”
  • “The Pale Green Alder-Way”
  • “The Watchword of the Stars”
  • “The Little Child that Went Away”
  • “Sleep”
  • “How Will it Be?”
  • “The Soft Wet Lips of the Rain”
  • “The Little Church at Sitka”
  • “The Passion-Call”

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