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

THEY called the little schooner… When they lightly launched her on… Stanch and trim she was to sail th… And with cheers they spread her sn… And a thing of beauty, forth she f…

THROUGHOUT the lonely house t… The wind-harp’s fitful music sinks… A cry of pain, sometimes, or sad a… Or faint, like broken peals of sil… Across the little garden comes the…

BACK from life’s coasts the ebbi… The singing tide that brimmed with… The torch of sunset and the blush… Seemed to have lost their glow for… There was such silence in the empt…

CRUSHING the scarlet strawberr… I kneel to read the slanting stone… How sharp a sorrow speaks! A hund… And more have vanished, with their… Since here was laid, upon an Apri…

AT the open window I lean; Flowers in the garden without Faint in the heat and the drought; What does the music mean? For here, from the cold keys withi…

NAY, comrade, 't is a weary path… Through this world’s desert spaces… And long ago died out youth’s morn… And low the sunset fires before us… And you are worn, though brave the…

THE swallow twitters about the ea… Blithely she sings, and sweet and… Around her climb the woodbine leav… In a golden atmosphere. The summer wind sways leaf and spr…

I WORE your roses yesterday: About this light robe’s folds of w… Wherein their gathered sweetness l… Still clings their perfume of deli… And all in vain the warm wind swee…

I STOOD within the little cove, Full of the morning’s life and hop… While heavily the eager waves Charged thundering up the rocky sl… The splendid breakers! How they r…

GOOD-BY, sweet day, good-by! I have so loved thee, but I canno… Departing like a dream, the shadow… Slowly thy perfect beauty fades aw… Good-by, sweet day!

LIKE huge waves, petrified, agai… The solemn hills are heaved; by sh… Or softly touched by delicate ligh… Melting in sapphire and in amethys… The thronging mountains, crowding…

IT blossomed by the summer sea, A tiny space of tangled bloom Wherein so many flowers found room… A miracle it seemed to be! Up from the ground, alert and brig…

SO soon the end must come, Why waste in sighs our breath? So soon our lips are dumb, So swift comes death. So brief the time to smile,

SUNFLOWER tall and hollyhock,… Cornflower, poppy, and marigold, b… Delicate sweet-peas, glowing brigh… While over the fence, on fire with… Quaint little wilderness of flower…