FROM the near city comes the cla… Their hundred jarring diverse tone… In one faint misty harmony, as fin… As the soft note yon winter robin… What if to Thee in Thine Infinit…

An Old Man’s Confession SHE has a large still heart—this… (Not mine, i’faith! nor would I t… She walks this world of ours like… Pure with a marble pureness, movin…

FACE upward to the sky Quiet I lie: Quiet as if the finger of God’s w… Had bade this human mechanism ‘be… And sent the intangible essence, t…

O LIVING, living water, So busy and so bright, Aye flashing in the morning beams, And sounding through the night; O golden-shining water—

O THE long northern twilight bet… When the heat and the weariness of… When the hills grow dim as dreams,… Like that River of Life from out… O the weird northern twilight, whi…

MY Friend wears a cheerful smile… And a musical tongue has he; We sit and look in each other’s fa… And are very good company. A heart he has, full warm and red

WAVY and bright in the summer ai… Like a pleasant sea when the wind… And its roughest breath has scarce… The green highway to a distant wor… Soft whispers passing from shore t…

O the green things growing, the gr… The faint sweet smell of the green… I should like to live, whether I… Just to watch the happy life of my… O the fluttering and the pattering…

O SILENT my sister, who stands… Back gazing with me on those waves… That rose, grew, and threatened, a… While we still sit watching and wa… O sister, with looks so familiar,…

‘Emelie, that fayrer was to seene Than is the lilye on hys stalke gr… Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.… DOST thou thus love me, O thou b… So beautiful, that by thy side I…

O STRANGE soft gleam, o ghostl… That never brightens unto day; Ere earth’s mirk pale once more be… Let us look out beyond the gray. It is just midnight by the clock—

SENT IN A LITTLE BOX. LET them lie, yes, let them lie, They’ll be dead to-morrow: Lift the lid up quietly As you’d lift the mystery

No, I’ll not say your name. I hav… As you mine, first in childish tre… Up through a score and more famili… Till baby-voices mock us. Time ma… When your tall sons look down on o…

SILENT and sunny was the way Where Youth and I danced on toget… So winding and embowered o’er, We could not see one rood before. Nevertheless all merrily

AH me, how heavily the night come… Heavily, heavily: Fade the curved shores, the blue h… The darkening waves we oared in li… Joy melts from us as sunshine from…