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Poetry
Capítulos (230)
- To My Father 0:00
- A Hidden Life 2:14
- The Homeless Ghost 1:20:36
- Abu Midjan 1:34:14
- An Old Story 1:45:53
- A Book of Dreams 1:48:41
- To Aurelio Saffi 2:16:12
- A. M. D. 2:17:10
- A Memorial of Africa 2:18:07
- A Gift 2:20:02
- The Man of Songs 2:21:29
- Better Things 2:22:08
- The Journey 2:23:44
- Prayer 2:29:35
- Rest 2:30:00
- To A. J. Scott 2:33:01
- Light 2:35:08
- To A. J. Scott: When, Long Ago, the Daring of My Youth 2:51:43
- Were I a Skilful Painter 2:52:55
- If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun 2:54:39
- Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth 2:58:04
- The Hills 2:59:40
- I Know What Beauty Is 3:01:56
- I Would I Were a Child 3:03:55
- The Lost Soul 3:06:46
- A Dream Within a Dream 3:11:14
- After an Old Legend 3:51:50
- The Tree’s Prayer 3:54:10
- A Story of the Sea-Shore: To Them That Mourn 3:56:11
- My Heart 4:29:40
- O Do Not Leave Me 4:32:18
- The Flower-Angels 4:33:08
- To My Sister 4:34:16
- Oh Thou of Little Faith 4:35:55
- Longing: My Heart Is Full of Inarticulate Pain 4:36:49
- The Disciple 4:39:24
- The Child-Mother 5:15:25
- Love’s Ordeal 5:21:47
- A Prayer for the Past 5:40:59
- Far and Near 5:48:28
- My Room 5:50:34
- Sympathy 6:05:16
- Little Elfie 6:06:44
- The Thank-Offering 6:08:42
- The Burnt-Offering 6:09:49
- To S. F. S. 6:10:48
- The Unseen Face 6:11:54
- Concerning Jesus 6:13:04
- Death and Birth 6:29:20
- Longing: Away from the City’s Herds! 6:35:34
- My Eyes Make Pictures 6:36:39
- Death 6:39:10
- Lessons for a Child 6:41:16
- Hope Deferred: Summer Is Come Again. The Sun Is Bright, 6:45:58
- The Death of the Old Year 6:50:19
- A Thanksgiving 7:01:51
- The Gospel Women 7:04:01
- A Song in a Dream 7:39:11
- Songs of the Days and Nights 7:40:30
- The Three Horses 8:05:23
- The Golden Key 8:15:09
- Somnium Mystici 8:18:12
- The Sangreal 9:02:42
- The Failing Track 9:11:23
- Tell Me 9:13:00
- Brother Artist! 9:15:56
- Sir Lark and King Sun 9:18:13
- The Owl and the Bell 9:20:41
- He Heeded Not 9:25:18
- The Sheep and the Goat 9:29:43
- The Shadows 9:32:05
- An Old Sermon with a New Text 9:33:18
- The Wakeful Sleeper 9:36:23
- A Dream of Waking 9:39:35
- A Meditation of St. Eligius 9:42:11
- Hymn for a Sick Girl 9:43:57
- A Christmas Carol for 1862 9:45:00
- A Christmas Carol 9:47:26
- The Sleepless Jesus 9:48:33
- The Children’s Heaven 9:50:35
- Rejoice 9:53:08
- The Grace of Grace 9:54:52
- Antiphon 9:55:41
- Dorcas 9:57:12
- Marriage Song 9:58:18
- Blind Bartimeus 9:59:42
- Come Unto Me 10:00:58
- Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit 10:02:15
- Blessed Are They That Mourn 10:03:04
- Blessed Are the Meek 10:03:52
- Blessed Are They That Hunger 10:04:44
- Blessed Are the Merciful 10:05:33
- Blessed Are the Pure in Heart 10:06:22
- Morning Hymn 10:07:14
- Evening Hymn 10:08:21
- Noontide Hymn 10:09:05
- The Thankless Lady 10:09:57
- The Sea-Shell 10:11:44
- Autumn Song 10:13:09
- Spring Song 10:15:01
- What Makes Summer? 10:15:22
- The Mistletoe 10:21:34
- Wild Flowers 10:25:43
- Professor Noctutus 10:29:26
- Bird-Songs 10:30:53
- The Unseen Model 10:32:06
- Legend of the Corrievrechan 10:35:39
- The Dead Hand 10:39:12
- To Lady Noel Byron 10:40:48
- To Garibaldi, with a Book 10:41:12
- To the Same 10:42:12
- The Holy Midnight 10:42:41
- Hard Times 10:43:18
- Summer Song 10:44:01
- Picture Songs 10:45:26
- A Dream Song 10:47:49
- A Manchester Poem 10:49:17
- Riddles 11:07:27
- Baby 11:09:49
- Up and Down 11:11:03
- Up in the Tree 11:11:37
- A Baby-Sermon 11:12:26
- Little Bo-Peep 11:12:36
- Little Boy Blue 11:15:56
- Willie’s Question 11:25:56
- The Early Bird 11:37:11
- Song of the Lonely 11:39:52
- The Diary of an Old Soul 11:40:32
- The Diary of an Old Soul 11:40:40
- A Threefold Cord 14:36:26
- Russell Gurney 19:00:06
- To One Threatened with Blindness 19:01:05
- To Aubrey de Vere 19:03:00
- General Gordon 19:03:59
- Written for One in Sore Pain 19:05:41
- Christmas, 1873 19:06:47
- Christmas, 1884 19:08:01
- A Song for Christmas 19:08:38
- To My Aging Friends 19:10:04
- Christmas Song of the Old Children 19:11:25
- Christmas Meditation 19:13:12
- The Old Castle 19:13:43
- Christmas Prayer 19:14:45
- Song of the Innocents 19:15:10
- Christmas Day and Every Day 19:15:45
- Rondel 19:16:02
- A Prayer: When I Look Back Upon My Life Nigh Spent 19:17:01
- Home from the Wars 19:17:44
- God; Not Gift 19:18:03
- To Any Friend 19:19:29
- Winter Song 19:20:28
- At My Window After Sunset 19:20:55
- A Father to a Mother 19:23:58
- The Temple of God 19:24:25
- Going to Sleep 19:25:20
- To-Morrow 19:26:13
- Foolish Children 19:26:45
- Love Is Home 19:27:55
- Faith 19:29:35
- Waiting: I Waited for the Master 19:30:18
- Our Ship 19:30:41
- My Heart Thy Lark 19:31:08
- Two in One 19:32:01
- Bedtime 19:32:55
- A Prayer: Thou Who Mad’st the Mighty Clock 19:33:52
- A Song Prayer 19:34:33
- Reciprocity 19:35:37
- What the Lord Saith 19:36:25
- How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song 19:37:32
- This World 19:39:45
- Saint Peter 19:42:19
- Zacchaeus 19:44:22
- After Thomas Kemp 19:45:45
- To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum 19:49:35
- Song of the Saints and Angels 19:51:15
- Failure 19:52:14
- To E. G., Dedicating a Book 19:52:31
- To G. M. T. 19:53:11
- In Memoriam Lady Caroline Charteris 19:54:31
- A Mammon-Marriage 19:55:39
- A Song in the Night: A Brown Bird Sang on a Blossomy Tree 19:57:01
- Love’s History 19:58:23
- The Lark and the Wind 19:59:32
- A Dead House 20:00:02
- Master and Boy 20:01:45
- The Clock of the Universe 20:02:42
- The Thorn in the Flesh 20:08:21
- Lycabas 20:10:26
- In the Night 20:17:55
- The Giver 20:18:59
- False Prophets 20:19:40
- Life-Weary 20:20:16
- Approaches 20:21:05
- Travellers’ Song 20:21:46
- Love Is Strength 20:22:40
- Coming 20:23:36
- A Song of the Waiting Dead 20:24:23
- Obedience 20:25:15
- A Song in the Night: I Would I Were an Angel Strong 20:25:45
- De Profundis 20:26:34
- Blind Sorrow 20:27:53
- Angels 20:29:01
- The Father’s Worshippers 20:29:15
- A Birthday-Wish 20:29:28
- To Any One 20:29:43
- Waiting: Lie, Little Cow, and Chew Thy Cud 20:30:02
- Lost but Safe 20:30:26
- Much and More 20:30:51
- Hope and Patience 20:31:22
- A Better Thing 20:31:42
- A Prisoner 20:32:13
- To My Lord and Master 20:32:34
- To One Unsatisfied 20:32:52
- To My God 20:33:09
- Triolet 20:33:21
- The Word of God 20:33:45
- To the Life Eternal 20:34:08
- Hope Deferred: Where Is Thy Crown, O Tree of Love? 20:34:30
- Forgiveness 20:34:56
- Dejection 20:35:29
- Appeal 20:36:15
- Mother Nature 20:36:47
- King Cole 20:37:34
- Said and Did 20:41:11
- Dr. Doddridge’s Dog 20:42:04
- The Girl That Lost Things 20:43:21
- A Make-Believe 20:47:05
- The Christmas Child 20:53:32
- A Christmas Prayer 20:53:56
- No End of No-Story 20:54:35
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister whose visionary works laid foundations for modern fantasy literature. They continue to resonate today with their spirituality, emphasis on personal transformation, and harmonious view of nature as a reflection of divine presence, influencing contemporary discussions on faith, ecology, and moral imagination.
Composed amid his novels and sermons, many of his poems first appeared in 19th-century periodicals. This edition collects all of his poetry (excluding only his poetry written in Scots), encompassing narrative epics that trace inner journeys, intimate sonnets on divine love and human vulnerability, devotional reflections on the soul’s quest for enlightenment, and whimsical verses for children that blend wonder with ethical insight.
Marked by a profound personal spirituality, MacDonald’s poems delve into the tensions of faith and doubt, the divine presence in everyday life, and the interplay between the ordinary and the transcendent—as seen, for example, in “A Hidden Life,” a long narrative tracing a young man’s spiritual growth through humble rural toil and inner trials, and “The Diary of an Old Soul,” a year-long sequence of introspective stanzas chronicling daily spiritual struggles and aspirations.