With a resplendent Eastern bride, Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling, ’Mid odours of so rare a steam That like a breath of love they se…

“WHO would not be a poet?” thus… In thy proud sonnet, my poetic fri… And unto this my full assent was g… “There is not, cannot be, under al… Aught happier in itself than the w…

FIRM trust of the bold sailor on… What strength is in its structure… Old ocean’s bed-rock gripping, wit… And therefore ’tis the emblem held… Through the billows ceaseless ragi…

Words are deeds. The words we hea… May revolutionize or rear A mighty state. The words we read May be a spiritual deed Excelling any fleshly one,

WHERE Beauty is smiling With Love undenied, Where Gladness is flowing From Pleasure’s hill-side, Whatever of charming

MARK yon runnel, how ’tis flowin… Like a sylvan spirit dreaming Of the spring-blooms near it blowi… And the sunlight o’er it beaming— Bright from bank to bank, or growi…

Fair as the Night—when all the as… Of heaven are burning in the clear… Is Nora; and her eyes, like star-… Lustrous with glowing thoughts and… And that mysterious pathos which i…

THE world’s heart is kindless and… As the head of the wandering Jew, And can never be won from the caus… Till man to Humanity’s true; There’s a path to redemption—but t…

DARK is her cheek, but her blood… Comes through its dusk with a suns… While joy, like a prairie-bee, sla… At the red honey-cup of her smilin… And her wild eyes glow, like meteo…

LITTLE, perhaps, thou valuest v… Little hast read of what my hand h… Yet I with thy brave memory would… The muse’s amaranths. For thou we… For freedom; well her sacred lesso…

I LOVE him so, That though his face I ne’er migh… In the assurance that he so loved… This heart of mine would glow With pulses sweeter than the sweet…

Spirit, that lookest from the star… Of truth’s white flock, next to th… Accept my reverence though but fee… And oh! My heart from thy example… Henceforth its being for worthiest…

STANDING alone, a study in its… How Shakespeare’s volume glorifie… For thence his spirit forth on min… Like a great morning on the hills… Sphered in the light of his creati…

FORWARD ho! Forward ho! Soldie… Hope on; fight on; till man’s whol… Free of all good under heaven’s wi… And doubt not, the earth that has… Shall grow young again in the ligh…

Night was new-throned in heaven, a… Together in the cool and shadowles… That thickened round, at the wild… Ere yet the moon’s red rim had sho… The pine-trees. For in both our s…