A MIRACLE—that man should lear… These little vessels with his boun… Should through these arbitrary sig… The world, and scatter broadcast a… His unseen thought, in endless tra…

Daybreak. CHORUS OF PLANETARY SP… YE interstellar spaces, serene an… Above, below, around! Ye gray unmeasured breadths of eth…

‘NAUGHT but the fittest lives,’… Ring on the northern breeze of tho… ‘To Nature’s heart the strong are… The weak must pass unloved, unsoug… And yet in undertones a voice

One day in the bluest of summer we… Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing to… Over some ornithological joke. What the fun was I couldn’t disco…

A Fable. ‘WHAT can the matter be with the… Is it the sun or the moon or the c… Something broke loose in the old e… Thus in his study a weather philos…

WHILE the skies of this norther… Scowl down with a darkening menace… I wonder if you still remember That marvellous summer in Venice. When the mornings by clouds unencu…

IF at one door stands life to che… And at another, death, to mock bec… We thought life’s promise good; if… And is and should be ends in fume… Then let us live for joy alone—the…

A wondrous light is filling the ai… And rimming the clouds of the old… And hopeful eyes look up to see Truth’s mighty electricity,- Auroral shimmerings swift and brig…

THE day so long remembered comes… The years have vanished. On the v… We stand and wave adieux, until a… Our bark appears to friends whose… Follow our voyage o’er the unknown…

No more the scarlet maples flash a… Their beacon-fires from hilltop an… The meadow-grasses and the woodlan… In the bleak woods lie withered on… The trees stand bare, and bare eac…

A Moorish Ballad IN Grenada reigned Mohammed, Sixth who bore the name was he; But the rightful king, Prince You… Pined in long captivity:

UNBIDDEN to the feast where fr… To greet thy seventy years, their… For that thy form erect such weigh… Should bear, was never present to… Whittier, I bring my offering, th…

ON the high road travelling stead… Sure, alert, and ever ready, Prompt to seize all fit occasion, Courting power and wealth and stat… One clear aim before him keeping

A GROAN from a dim-lit upper ro… A stealthy step on the stairs in t… A hurried glance to left, to right In the court below—then out in the… There creeps a man through an alle…

Across the sea the swift sad messa… And beats with sudden pang against… Under the elm-trees in his homeste… The Laureate of our land lies dea… Wept by the love of friends, and c…