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The Nun
Isaac Rosenberg
So thy soul's meekness shrinks,
Too loth to show her face-
Why should she shun the world ?
It is a holy...
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Heaven - Haven A nun takes the veil
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
 
And I have asked to be
Where no...
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Lines: Written In 'Letters Of An Italian Nun And An English Gentleman'
George Gordon Lord Byron
'Away, away, your fleeting arts
May now betray some simpler hearts;
And you will smile at their believing,
And they shall weep at your...
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Nun, The
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Suggested By Part Of The Italian Song, Beginning "Se Moneca Ti Fai."
 

 
I
 
If you become a nun, dear,
A friar I will be;
In any cell you run,...
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On A Nun
George Gordon Lord Byron
Of two fair virgins, modest, though admired,
Heaven made us happy; and now, wretched sires,
Heaven for a nobler doom their worth desires,
And gazing...
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On The Death Of The Same Revered Nun...
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
In Memoriam.
Grief reigns now within the convent walls,
And sadly float through its silent halls
The notes of a requiem—solemn, clear,
Falling like...
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Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XXII. -- The Nun Of Nidaros
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the convent of Drontheim,
Alone in her chamber
Knelt Astrid the Abbess,
At midnight, adoring,
Beseeching, entreating
The Virgin and...
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The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest
John Dryden
There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore,
A widow, somewhat old, and very poor;
Deep in a dale her cottage lonely stood,
Well thatched, and...
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
THE PROLOGUE.
'Ho! ' quoth the Knight, 'good sir, no more of this;
That ye have said is right enough, y-wis,* *of a surety
And muche...
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The Second Nun's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
The minister and norice* unto vices, *nurse
Which that men call in English idleness,
The porter at the gate is of delices;*...
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The Nun Of Kent
Riba Akabusi
She joined
the...
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