Spring Rain I thought I had forgotten, But it all came back again To-night with the first spring thunder In a rush of rain. I remembered a darkened do...
The Ghost I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my new love's glory, My eyes were laug...
Summer Night, Riverside In the wild, soft summer darkness How many and many a night we two together Sat in the park and watched the Hudson Wearing her...
Jewels If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go - Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back ...
Mastery I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights； Nor angels with bright burning wings Orderi...
Interlude Songs out of SorrowI. Spirit's House From naked stones of agony I will build a house for me； As a mason all alone I will raise it, stone...
Lessons Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine； Unless I ...
Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I...
In a Burying Ground This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea....
Wood Song I heard a wood thrush in the dusk Twirl three notes and make a star - My heart that walked with bitterness Came back from very far. Three sh...