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An Old Story
(1864)
They were parted at last, although
Each was tenderly dear;
As asunder their eyes did go,
When first alone and near.
'Tis an old story this--
A trembling and a sigh,
A gaze in the eyes, a kiss--
Why will it not go by?
Fiction
- A Double Story
- A Rough Shaking
- Adela Cathcart
- Alec Forbes of Howglen
- Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- At the Back of the North Wind
- David Elginbrod
- Donal Grant
- Gutta Percha Willie: the Working Genius
- Heather and Snow
- Home Again: A Tale
- Lilith
- Malcolm
- Mary Marston
- Paul Faber, Surgeon
- Phantastes
- Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
- Robert Falconer
- Salted With Fire
- Sir Gibbie
- St. George and St. Michael
- The Elect Lady
- The Flight of the Shadow
- The History of Photogen and Nycteris
- The Light Princess
- The Marquis of Lossie
- The Portent and Other Stories
- The Princess and Curdie
- The Princess and the Goblin
- The Seaboard Parish
- The Vicar's Daughter
- There & Back
- Thomas Wingfold, Curate
- Warlock o' Glenwarlock
- Weighed and Wanting
- What's Mine's Mine
- Wilfrid Cumbermede
Plays
Short Stories
Essays
Poetry
- A Book Of Dreams
- A Boy's Grief
- A Dream Within A Dream
- A Gift
- A Hidden Life
- A Memorial of Africa
- A Prayer for the Past
- A Song In A Dream
- A Story of the Sea Shore
- A Thanksgiving
- Abu Midjan
- After An Old Legend
- An Old Story
- Away from the city's herds!
- Better Things
- Blessed Are The Meek
- Death
- Death and Birth
- Eighteen Sonnets About Jesus
- Far and Near
- Four Sonnets
- Hope Deferred
- I Know What Beauty Is
- I Would I Were A Child
- If I Were A Monk
- Lessons for a Child
- Light
- Little Elfie
- Longing
- Love's Ordeal
- Martha
- Mary
- Mary Magdalene
- My Eyes Make Pictures
- My Heart
- My Room
- O Do Not Leave Me
- Oh Thou of Little Faith!
- Pilate's Wife
- Prayer
- Rest
- Sonnet to A.M.D.
- Sonnet: Exodus xxxiii. 18-23
- Sympathy
- The Burnt Offering
- The Child-Mother
- The Death of the Old Year
- The Diary of an Old Soul
- The Hills
- The Holy Snowdrops
- The Homeless Ghost
- The Journey
- The Lost Soul
- The Man of Songs
- The Mother Mary
- The Mother of Zebedee's Children
- The Syrophenician Woman
- The Thank Offering
- The Tree's Prayer
- The Widow of Nain
- The Widow With the Two Mites
- The Woman in the Temple
- The Woman of Samaria
- The Woman That Cried in the Crowd
- The Woman That Was A Sinner
- The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd
- The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound
- The Women Who Ministered Unto Him
- To A.J. Scott
- To Aurelio Saffi
- To My Father
- To My Sister
- Were I A Skilful Painter
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