Though you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends...
O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence, When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer, And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the ...
SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EID?LON YACHT! HEAVE the anchor short! Raise main-sail and jib - steer forth, O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really ...
LINGERING LAST DROPS AND whence and why come you? We know not whence, (was the answer,) We only know that we drift here with the rest, That we linger&...
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY GOOD-BYE1 my fancy - (I had a word to say, But 'tis not quite the time - The best of any man's word or say, Is when its prop...
ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! ON, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-t...
MY 71ST YEAR AFTER surmounting three-score and ten, With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows, My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life,...
APPARITIONS A VAGUE mist hanging 'round half the pages: (Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul, That all these solid things are indeed but a...
The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, The...
Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and bend your head, And I would lay my head on your b...