O MY trade it is the rarest one, Simple shepherds all—— My trade is a sight to see; For my customers I tie, and take 'em up on high, A...
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter night, and sought a gate—— The hom...
THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall...
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee has the naughty thumb of science prodded t...
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best...
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute"; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel And the giddy stars (so legend...
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find...
OUR band is few but true and tried Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good gr...
LET me move slowly through the street Filled with an ever-shifting train Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like autumn rain. How f...
HOW shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps The disembodied spirits of the dead When all of thee that time could wither sleeps And perishes among ...