“COME out and hear the birds sin… At the western window watching, dr… While the warm summer wind dispart… What is it on the dim sea line you… “I seek a sail that never looms fr…

GRACEFUL, tossing plume of glo… Waving lonely on the rocky ledge; Leaning seaward, lovely to behold, Clinging to the high cliff’s ragge… Burning in the pure September sky…

WHEN the darkness drew away at t… I heard the medricks screaming lou… And I wondered to behold all the… Flashing into fire and flame where… Red the sea ran east and west, bur…

IN that new world toward which ou… Shall we find aught to make our he… Earth’s homely joys and her bright… Has heaven a spell divine enough f… For who the pleasure of the spring…

O SWALLOW, sailing lightly The crystal deeps of blue, With flashing wings that brightly Glitter the sunshine through, What sayest thou, returning

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,

THOU little child, with tender,… Drop thy sweet head, my darling, d… Upon my shoulder, rest with all th… Be soothed and comforted, be loved… Against thy silken, honey-colored…

HOW long it seems since that mild… When, leaning from the window, you… Heard, clearly ringing from the sh… The loon’s unearthly cry! Southwest the wind blew, million l…

BLACK lie the hills; swiftly dot… And, catching gleams of sunset’s d… Through the dusk land for many a c… The river runneth softly to the se… O happy river, could I follow the…

NAY, wherefore should I seek thy… To weary thee with words that naug… This faltering voice will not ring… It will but break and fail. And yet I cannot keep back any pa…

THE chill, sad evening wind of wi… Across the headland, bleak and bar… Rustling the thin, dry grass that… And shivering whispers like a huma… The sky is thick with stars that s…

WHAT dost thou here, young wife,… Gathering crimson dulse? Know’st thou not that the cloud in… And the wind has a hurrying pulse? Peaceful the eastern waters before…

BLACK sea, black sky! A pondero… Between them, laboring westward on… And in her path a trap of Death’s… Waiting remorseless for its easy p… Hundreds of souls within her frame…

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…