SING, little bird, oh sing! How sweet thy voice and clear! How fine the airy measures ring, The sad old world to cheer! Bloom, little flower, oh bloom!

FAR off against the solemn sky Black lie the city’s towers; Before me rustles, dim and dry, My field of golden flowers. How thin the wind’s cool whisper d…

THERE is no wind at all to-night To dash the drops against the pane… No sound abroad, nor any light, And sadly falls the autumn rain; There is no color in the world,

O SWALLOW, sailing lightly The crystal deeps of blue, With flashing wings that brightly Glitter the sunshine through, What sayest thou, returning

WITH clamor the wild southwester Through the wide heaven is roaring… Ploughing the ocean, and over The earth its fury outpouring. Lo, how the vast gray spaces

NOT SO! You stand as long ago a… Stood on the seashore, bidding bac… That onward rolled resistless stil… Its awful volume landward, wild an… And just as impotent is your comma…

LOVE, art thou weary with the su… Fain would I be the cool and deli… About the whiteness of thy brow to… And softly, lightly stir thy cloud… Upon thy head doth the fierce wint…

BE thou ashamed, O Sidon, saith… The loud voice of the world is in… The world thy service hath and rul… Thou givest unto vanity thy years. Hearken, O Tyre! For God stretch…

LIES the sunset splendor far and… On the golden tide! Drifting slow toward yonder evenin… With the faint stars sparkling ove… Peacefully we glide.

A BABY girl not two years old Among the phlox and pansies stands… And full of flowers as they can ho… Her mother fills her little hands, And bids her cross to where I sta…

EARLY this morning waking, I heard the sandpipers call, And the sea on the shore was break… With a dreamy rise and fall. The dawn that was softly blushing

NAY, wherefore should I seek thy… To weary thee with words that naug… This faltering voice will not ring… It will but break and fail. And yet I cannot keep back any pa…

STANDS Hjelma at her lady’s cha… Serving with ready hands, About her head her shining hair Braided in golden strands. A rose blooms in her maiden cheek,

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…

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