THERE is no day so dark But through the murk some ray of h… Some blessed touch from Heaven th… If we but chose to mark. We shut the portals fast,

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…

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…

IF God speaks anywhere, in any vo… To us, his creatures, surely here… We hear Him, while the great chor… Our heads, and all the symphony’s… Breaks over us with challenge to o…

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…

A CLASH of human tongues within Made the bright room a dreary jail… Dull webs of talk the idle spin Turned all its glow and color pale… Outside, the peaceful sunset sky

ALREADY the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts; Already the tall ripe grasses Are standing in serried hosts, Bowing with stately gesture

SEE how the wind is hauling point… By the boats in the little harbor,… And the coasting craft emerge from… And on the rocks the breakers rela… At last is the tempest ended, the…

I WONDERED what power possesse… As I took my seat in the motley c… And glancing swiftly from face to… Of the poor and mean, and the rich… And all the stages betwixt the two

SEPTEMBER’S slender crescent… Distinct in yonder peaceful evenin… Clearer the stars are sparkling ov… And all the sky is pure, without a… Cool blows the evening wind from o…

THEY crossed the lonely and lame… Its moaning seemed but singing. “… He asked her, “brave the lonelines… “What loneliness,” she said, “if t… Afar and cold on the horizon’s rim

OH the fragrance of the air With the breathing of the flowers! Oh the isles of cloudlets fair, Shining after balmy showers! Oh the freshly rippling notes!

O PILGRIM, comes the night so… Let not the dark thy heart appall, Though loom the shadows vague and… For Love shall save us all. There is no hope but this to see

SOFTLY Death touched her, and s… Out of this glad, bright world she… Sweet as the apple-blossoms, when… The orchards flush, of summer grow… All that fresh, delicate beauty go…

THE tide flows up, the tide flows… The water brims the creek and fall… A cottage weather-stained and brow… Lifts at the brink its time-worn w… Beneath the lowly window sill