VELVETS (BY A BED OF PANSIES) THIS pansy has a thinking face Like the yellow moon. This one has a face with white blots; I call him the clown. Here go...
HE MOODS THE Moods have laid their hands across my hair: The Moods have drawn their fingers through my heart; My hair shall never more lie smooth and ...
HILL-FANTASY SITTETH by the red cairn a brown One, a hoofed One, High upon the mountain, where the grasses fail. Where the ash-trees flourish far thei...
THE MIRAGE ACROSS the Bay are low-lying cliffs, Where stand fishermen's cottages: I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye. But to-day the...
THE ROAD BEYOND THETOWN A ROAD goes up a pleasant hill, And a little house looks down: Ah! but I see the roadway still And the day I left the town. Th...
THE LILAC THE scent of lilac in the air Hath made him drag his steps and pause Whence comes this scent within the Square, Where endless dusty traffic ...
GOD, THROUGH HIS OFFSPRING NATURE, GAVE ME LOVE GOD, through his offspring Nature, gave me love, Though man in opposition saith me nay, And taketh fro...
TO MUSIC "Music, the language, the atmosphere of the Soul." FLY back where Melodies like lilies grow, My weary heart is bending low; Fly hig...
THE VOICE IN THE SONG HIGH in the apple bough jauntily swinging, Hid by the branches in bridal array, Straight from his heart, all his life in his sin...
HYMNS AND ANTHEMS SUNG AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE I MOUNT CARMEL WHERE art Thou, O my Lord? Mount Carmel saw the throng Of priests and heard the song; To Ba...