Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free; If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? Are ye not base slaves indeed,

The wisest man could ask no more o… Than to be simple, modest, manly,… Safe from the Many, honoured by t… To count as naught in World, or C… But inwardly in secret to be great…

From the close-shut windows gleams… The night is chilly, the night is… The poplars shiver, the pine-trees… My hair by the autumn breeze is bl… Under thy window I sing alone,

Weak-Winged is Song, Nor aims at that clear-ethered hei… Whither the brave deed climbs for… We seem to do them wrong, Bringing our robin’s-leaf to deck…

God makes sech nights, all white a… Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an’ snow on field an’ hi… All silence an’ all glisten. Zekle crep’ up quite unbeknown

Dear Sir’€”You wish to know my no… On sartin pints thet rile the land… There’s nothin’ thet my natur so s… Es bein’ mum or underhand; I’m a straight-spoken kind o’ cree…

The rich man’s son inherits lands, And piles of brick and stone, and… And he inherits soft white hands, And tender flesh that fears the co… Nor dares to wear a garment old;

TO M.L. A lily thou wast when I saw thee… A lily-bud not opened quite, That hourly grew more pure and whi… By morning, and noontide, and even…

As, cleansed of Tiber’s and Obliv… Glow Farnesina’s vaults with shap… That dreamed some exiled artist fr… Back to his Athens and the Muse’s… So these world-orphaned waifs of…

When I was a beggarly boy And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin’s lamp; When I could not sleep for the co…

May is a pious fraud of the almana… A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed wi… Or if, o’er-confident, she trust t… And, with her handful of anemones,

I du believe in Freedom’s cause, Ez fur away ez Paris is; I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal Pharisees; It’s wal enough agin a king

One kiss from all others prevents… And sets all my pulses astir, And burns on my lips and torments… ’Tis the kiss that I fain would g… One kiss for all others requites m…

Soldier and statesman, rarest unis… High-poised example of great dutie… Simply as breathing, a world’s hon… As life’s indifferent gifts to all… Dumb for himself, unless it were t…