AH me, my scarlet hollyhock, Whose stately head the breezes roc… How sad, that in one night of fros… Thy radiant beauty shall be lost, And all thy glory overthrown

THE chill, sad evening wind of wi… Across the headland, bleak and bar… Rustling the thin, dry grass that… And shivering whispers like a huma… The sky is thick with stars that s…

THE children wandered up and down… Seeking for driftwood o’er the san… The elder tugged at granny’s gown, And pointed with his little hand. “Look! look!” he cried, “at yonder…

THE crimson sunset faded into gra… Upon the murmurous sea the twiligh… The last warm breath of the delici… Passed with a mute farewell. Above my head, in the soft purple…

THE tide flows up, the tide flows… The water brims the creek and fall… A cottage weather-stained and brow… Lifts at the brink its time-worn w… Beneath the lowly window sill

WARM, wild, rainy wind, blowing… Stirring dreamy breakers on the sl… What shall fail to answer thee? W… The spell of thine enchantment, fl… All along the swamp-edge in the ra…

CRICKET, why wilt thou crush me… How can such light sound weigh so… Behold the grass is sere, the cold… The world grows empty —yes, I kno… The knell of joy I hear.

CALM is the close of the day, All things are quiet and blest; Low in the darkening west The young moon sinks slowly away. Without, in the twilight, I dream…

SHE passes up and down life’s var… With noiseless footfall and with s… Within the circle of her quiet day… She takes of sorrow and of joy her… In her bright home, like some rare…

IN that new world toward which ou… Shall we find aught to make our he… Earth’s homely joys and her bright… Has heaven a spell divine enough f… For who the pleasure of the spring…

LIKE scattered flowers blown all… The rosy sails, lit with the sunri… The white stars in the brightness… In perfect silence dawns the day d… “Oh bring me neither gifts of good…

FRAGRANT and soft the summer w… Weary I lie, with heavy, half-shu… And watch, while wistful thoughts… The curtain idly swaying to and fr… There comes a sound of household t…

LAZILY, through the warm gray a… We sailed toward the land; Over the long sweep of the billows… We saw on either hand Peninsula and cape and silver beac…

O SAILORS, did sweet eyes look… The day you sailed away from sunny… Bright eyes that followed fading s… Melting in tender rain? Did no one dream of that drear nig…

O POVERTY! til now I never kne… The meaning of the word! What lac… O pale mask of a soul great, good,… O mocking semblance stretched upon… Each atom of this devastated face