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

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…

A STRONG sweet tide toward the… Sets steadfastly, till every inlet… And to the waiting silence, blank… Its full refreshment brings. Through the day’s business passing…

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…

THE wide, still, moonlit water mi… Stretches in lonely splendor. Whi… About us from the midnight wind, a… Among the flowers that breathe so… A soft touch sways the milk-white,…

THE crimson sunset faded into gra… Upon the murmurous sea the twiligh… The last warm breath of the delici… Passed with a mute farewell. Above my head, in the soft purple…

FRAGRANT and soft the summer w… Weary I lie, with heavy, half-shu… And watch, while wistful thoughts… The curtain idly swaying to and fr… There comes a sound of household t…

“TELL us a story of these isles,… The daughters of the West, whose… For the first time the circling se… Of the blown prairie’s waves of gr… “Tell us of wreck and peril, storm…

THE lilies clustered fair and tal… I stood outside the garden wall; I saw her light robe glimmering th… The fragrant evening’s dusk and de… She stooped above the lilies pale;

THE steadfast planet spins throug… And into darkness, into light Swiftly it wheels its living face: “'T is day,” we say, or “It is ni… And we who cling and with it turn,

SOUTHWARD still the sun is sla… Skies that brim with gold and azur… Beauty waxes cold and dim and cann… Into tone and tint steals somethin… Threat of evil finds its way to ev…

A PANSY on his breast she laid, Splendid, and dark with Tyrian dy… “Take it, 't is like your tender e… Deep as the midnight heaven,” she… The rich rose mantling in her chee…

“OH heaven bless you, heaven keep… It was God’s hand that dropped th… Upon her head, and clothed in pray… Her soul as saints are robed from… Gone is the beautiful beloved voic…

I LIT the lamps in the lighthous… For the sun dropped down and the d… They shone like a glorious cluster… Ten golden and five red. Looking across, where the line of…

SING, little bird, oh sing! How sweet thy voice and clear! How fine the airy measures ring, The sad old world to cheer! Bloom, little flower, oh bloom!