HER love was that full love which… Flows in and out life’s smallest g… And fills with music through long… Cold hearts that else would stern… Her smile would cheer, her faintes…

These mountains reign alone, they… The transitory life of woods and s… Wrapt in the deep solemnity of dre… They drain the sunshine of the upp… Beneath their peaks, the huge clou…

I CLOSED the book, but fancied… I heard, like distant music roll, The far-off echoes in my soul Of his great life. I listened til… Entranced, I thought that I could…

HAST thou not seen the tints unf… From earth, sky, sea, and setting… When all the glare of day was done… And melt in one long stream of gol… So down the dim-lit glades of time…

WORDS are but passing symbols of… Crying unto deep in individual sou… And men are words on the great voi… Through Nature, since that morn w… The elements heard, and they who v…

Before the seas and mountains were… I reigned. I hung the universe in… I capped earth’s poles with ice to… And set the moving tides their bou… I smoothed the granite mountains w…

WINTER forests mutely standing Naked on your bed of snow, Wide your knotted arms expanding To the biting winds that blow, Nought ye heed of storm or stress,

HAIL, sacred Feast, to weary mor… Pledge of God’s love! O Christ,… Thee, the slain Lamb, and Thee, t… Our life and peace, our joy for ev… Feed us, dear Lord, Thine own gre…

“LIFE is sad,” says the wind in… To the still soul listening, While the pale, pale day declines Like a white bird on the wing. “Life is sad,” says the quiet eart…

HOPE? What! hope!'€”you say ther… Hope! when the light is out; hope!… Hope! No, no, good lady! no hope… No home for me but the clammy grav… Hope! Well, there might have been…

I HEARD a voice at midnight, an… “O weary heart, O soul for which… Why wilt thou spurn My wounded ha… ”Is there a heart more tender, mor… Than that sad heart which gave its…

THEY were islanders, our fathers… And they watched the encircling se… And their hearts drank in the ceas… And the freedom of the breeze; Till they chafed at their narrow b…

The immortal spirit hath no bars To circumscribe its dwelling place… My soul hath pastured with the sta… Upon the meadow-lands of space. My mind and ear at times have caug…

DO you remember how, one autumn n… We sat upon the rocks and watched… In dreamlike silence, while the mo… On you and me? How, as we lingered musing, side b…

GREAT mother! from the depths of… From mountain pass and burning sun… We, thine unlettered children of t… Upraise to thee the everlasting hy… Of nature, language of the skies a…