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

HEAVY with cares no winnowing ha… Wrapt in a sadness never to be tol… As o’er the fields and through the… Following with restless footstep b… Of the still August morn, so I mi…

OUT of the cloud that dimmed his… Into the unknown firmament withdra… Beyond the mists and shadows of th… We mourn the friend and teacher wh… As in the days of old when Plato…

WITH what a live intelligence th… Glows and leaps up in spires of fl… And turns the coal just now so dul… To a companion—not like those who… To weary me with iteration tame

ALL day within me, sweet and clea… The song you sang is ringing. At night in my half-dreaming ear I hear you singing, singing. Ere thought takes up its homespun…

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…

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…

(A True Story) SHE stood beside the iron road, A little child of ten years old. She heard two meeting thunders rol… From north and south, that plainly…

I MET one in the Land of Sleep Who seemed a friend long known and… I woke. That friend I could not k… For him I never knew. Yet there was one in life’s young…

WHAT lapse or accident of time Can dull that soul’s sonorous chim… Which owns the priceless heritage— Youth’s summer warmth in wintry ag… The gods can grant no rarer boon

THE wish behind the thought is th… Of faith, and out of earth we buil… Life to each unschooled child of t… A fairy wand with which he thinks… The dark gate to a region vast and…

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…

So, heralded by Reason, Faith may… The darkened vale, the dolorous pa… In the great thought secure that l… Flow from the Soul of all, who, w… As with the living, is the fountai…

SHALL that bright flower the cou… And travailed to bring forth—shall… Whose bloom and fragrance earth an… Their treasuries to enrich, by dea… Its matchless splendor trampled do…

AH, many a time our memory slips… And leaves the round of present ca… To live again the time when we wer… To call our parents back with love… To see again the dear ones who hav…