IF I might build a palace, fair With every joy of soul and sense, And set my heart as sentry there To guard your happy innocence— If I might plant a hedge so stron…

HEART of my heart, my life and l… If you were lost what should I do… I dare not let you from my sight, Lest Death should fall in love wi… Such countless terrors lie in wait…

NOW that I’ve nearly done my day… And grown too stiff to sweep or se… I sit and think, till I’m amaze, About what lots of things I know: Things as I’ve found out one by o…

ARE you going for a soldier with… And a scarlet coat instead of the… Are you going to drive the foe as… Are you going for a soldier now? I am going for a soldier, and my t…

I PLUCKED the blossoms of deli… In many a wood and many a field, I made a garland fair and bright As any gardens yield. But when I sought the living tree

OH God! if I do my duty And walk in the thorny way, Will you pay me with heavens of be… Millions of lives away? Will you give me the music of heav…

IF I only had time! I could make you a rhyme. But my time is kept flying By smiling and sighing And living and dying for you.

‘What of the garden I gave?’ God said to me; ‘Hast thou been diligent to foster… The life of flower and tree? How have the roses thriven,

A MONTH of green and tender May… All woods and walks awake with flo… Wide sunlit meadows for the day, And moon-bathed paths for evening… A bright brief dream that had no p…

ALL the flight of thoughts here,… Fluttering in the sun, between the… Wheeling, whirling, poising, lovel… How to cage the flying thoughts, m… Set a springe of rhyme, and hope t…

Will you go a-maying, a-maying, a-… Come and be my Queen of May and p… The fields are full of daisy buds… The bird is on the nest, dear, the… ‘If I go with you, if I go a-mayi…

SHE and I—we kissed and vowed That should be which could not be; Just as if mere vows endowed Love with immortality! Ah, had vows but kept us true,

O LOVE, let us part now! Ours is the tremulous, low-spoken… Ours is the spell of meeting hands… The first, involuntary, sacred kis… Still on our lips in benediction l…

A wall Gray and tall, And a sky of gray, And a twilight cold; And that is all

HERE is the dim enchanted wood Your face, a mystery divine, But half revealed, half understood… Appears the counterpart of mine. Beyond the wood the daylight lies;