‘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

AN old umbrella in the hall, Battered and baggy, quaint and que… By all the rains of many a year Bent, stained, and faded—that is a… Warped, broken, twisted by the bla…

COLD philosophers, so apt With your formulas exacting, In your problems so enwrapt, And your theories distracting; Webs of metaphysic doubt

I STARTED on a lonely road. A few companions with me went. Some fell behind, some forward str… But all on one high purpose bent: To live for Nature, finding truth

COME, Sleep—Oblivion’s sire! Co… Thy shadowy sheltering wings above… Fold to thy balmy breast my weary… Shut close behind the gates of sen… All sad remembrance in thy Lethe…

Phoebus Apollo, from Olympus driv… Lived at Admetus, tending herds a… And strolling o’er the pastures an… He found his life much duller than… For he had left his bow, his songs…

O good old Year! this night’s you… And must you go? With you I’ve pa… Some days that bear revision. For these I’d thank you, ere you… Your journey to the Stygian lake,

YET what were love, and what were… And what were life, bereft of Poe… Who lingers in a garden where the… By no rich beds of fragrant flower… A homely vegetable patch where nau…

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

SOME summer mornings—when you’ve… Too late the night before—perhaps… If at some Berkshire farmhouse fa… You chance to wake while yet the s… A glory, to your landscape-painter…

Ah, who can tell which guide were… To truth long sought, but unattain… The early faith, or late unrest? What age has earned, or boyhood ga… When down life’s vista as we gaze,

A CHORUS OF HUMAN SPI… FAR in the shuddering spaces of t… We live. We saw a Shape Of terror rise and spread and issu… And we would fain escape

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…

FOR Peace, and all that follows… Nor slighting honor and his countr… He stood unmoved, and dared to fac… Of party-spirit and its turbid wra… He saw in vision the dread afterma…

AH, happy time! when music bound… Two kindred souls that ne’er were… When in the porch, beneath the sum… Our supper o’er, our school-boy le… While other lads were at some bois…