I saw a lady on the stair, And she was, oh, so strangely fair… With a knot of butter-colored hair… And a waiting, listening, wonderin… She was tall as a lady ought to be…

(Her lover speaks.) AN equal love between a man and w… This is the only charm to set us f… And this the only omen Of immortality.

HER hair was beautifully white Beneath her bonnet, black as night… Which, plainly of New England kin… Was tied with strings beneath her… And when she spoke I had no choic…

THERE is a willow grows beside a… Its long gray branches sweep the m… And from those waters shadowy and… The stars shine, large and dim. From open valleys filled with litt…

TRAINED nurses, trained nurses… Trained nurses by night, trained n… In the corridors, on the stair, Looking for towels, carrying a tra… Saying, 'you mustn’t,' ‘you must,’…

I WANTED you to come to-day­ Or so I told you in my letter­ And yet, if you had stayed away, I should have liked you so much be… I should have sipped my tea unseen…

THE clear young voices rise and s… Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:… Shall prosper that love thee.’ Ye… Harbors the hope that he may have… In war– the roar of guns, the roll…

BREEZE of the night, across my… Breeze of the night, of summer dew… Salt from the sea-shore, where the… Slow, to and fro, my window curtai… Cool my flushed cheeks, by recent…

COURAGE to ask of love neither… Wisdom to wait, silence and faith… Fear, not alone lest the bond be s… But, that love, too desperately de…

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THE LIGHT of spring On the emerald earth, A man, a maid, And a mood of mirth, A foolish jest,

LONG since I taught my spirit to… The Sage’s great commandment - to… And so to lose life’s bitterness a… And taste its sweetness; and I we… Eluding joy and sorrow, grave and…

WAYNE was looking near and far After the theatre to find his car. He had taken his wife to the play… Broadway was glittering hard and b… With every sort of electric light­

WON’T it be curious when I am de… Some one, unknown to me, here in m… Curious surely for others to see Trifles I made or marred outlasti… All my possessions - bracelets and…

‘NEVER,’ he said, ‘nevermore, In the murmuring stillness of nigh… Shall I wait for her hand on my d… Confident, light; Still is the night as before,