FRIEND, dear as Memory’s joys!… A part, and part of better life to… If life to come there be, in some… Beyond the rigid clouds that overc… Our sundered lives—all that is min…

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…

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…

Beyond the low marsh-meadows and t… Seen through the hoary trunks of w… The long blue level of the ocean s… The distant surf, with hoarse, com… Out from its sandy barrier seems t…

BEFORE the daybreak, in the mur… My chanticleer, half dreaming, see… Stream from my window on his perch… And taking it for dawn he needs mu… Wakeful and sad I shut my book, a…

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

Morning THE morning sun has pierced the m… And beach and cliff and ocean kiss… Blue as the lapis-lazuli The sea reflects the azure sky.

COME, we 'll light the parlor fi… Winter sets in sharp and rough. Wood is dear, but coal’s provided, For three months, I think, enough… Bring one hod of Lackawanna,

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…

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…

THE Summer goes, with all its bi… The Autumn passes with its solemn… The Winter comes again ‘ yet you… Know not the old companionship onc… The twilight mist between us hangs…

BEYOND the low marsh-meadows an… Seen through the hoary trunks of w… The long blue level of the ocean s… The distant surf, with hoarse, com… Out from its sandy barrier seems t…

FLEETER than time, across the… Through unsunned ocean depths, fro… Around the rolling globe Thought’… The new-tuned earth like some vast… Tingles from zone to zone; for Ar…

BLACK in the midnight lies the… Its dim horizon from my window hig… I see shut in beneath a misty sky Red with the light a million lamp-… Up from the humming streets. And…

YET words though weak are all tha… Wherewith their muse translates th… Of Harmony, whose subtle forms an… Float in the unlanguaged poesy of… And so no true-souled artist stand…