IV. And now, their rustic banquet done, And sheltered from the noontide sun By the old willow's pleasant shade, The guest and host the scene surve...
V. "Thou seest how fair a scene is here； It seems as if 'twere planned above, And fashioned from some happier sphere, To be the home of peace...
VI. I mind as if 'twere yesterday, The hour when first I stood beside The margin of yon rushing tide, And watched its wild waves in their play； Th...
VII. How strong a hand hath Time！ Man rears, And names his work immortal； years Go by. Behold！ where dwelt his pride, Stern Desolation's brood abi...
VIII. I said I minded well the time, When first beside yon stream I stood； Then one interminable wood, In its unbounded breadth sublime, And in its lo...
IX. See, where yon towering, rocky ledge, Hangs jutting o'er the river's edge, There channelled dark, and dull, and deep, The lazy, lagging wa...
X. Not in the peopled solitude Of cities, does true love belong； For it is of A thoughtful mood, And thought abides not with the throng. Nor is it won...
August Moonrise The sun was gone, and the moon was coming Over the blue Connecticut hills； The west was rosy, the east was flushed, And over my head t...
Memories II Places Places I love come back to me like music, Hush me and heal me when I am very tired； I see the oak woods at Saxton's flaming In ...
Old Tunes As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows； So the old t...