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Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast, Eternal as the Sea; What lacks the tidal sea thou hast… Profound stability. Beneath the sun that burns and bra…
W.K.C.—3rd MARCH, 1879. ‘A free man thinks of nothing so l… ‘DRAW back the curtain, wife,’ h… And, dying, raised his feeble head… As all his gathered soul leaped sh…
THE maiden meadows softly blush Beneath the enamoured breeze, And break into one purple flush Of frail anemones. Violet and rose and vermeil white,
THE land lay deluged by the Moon… The molten silver of the lake Shimmered in many a broad lagoon Between grey isles, whose copse an… Lay folded on the water’s breast
DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1… Thou sign-post of the Desert! Obe… Once fronting in thy monumental pr… Egypt’s fierce sun, that blazing f… Sheared her of tree and herb, till…
Ah, if you knew how soon and late My eyes long for a sight of you Sometimes in passing by my gate You’d linger until fall of dew, If you but knew!
SHUT out day’s wintry beams! Sleep, brood upon my brain! For sweet sleep bringeth dreams And love again! Love cold and wan and sere
Divest thyself, O Soul, of vain d… Bid hope farewell, dismiss all cow… Take leave of empty laughter, empt… And quench, for ever quench, the w… Wherein this heart, as in a funera…
IS this the Cottage, ivy-girt and… And this the path down which our… When, in the April of his love, s… Made all his mighty pulses throb a… Where, mid coy buds and winking fl…
AROUND this lichened home of ho… Invulnerable in its glassy moat, A breath of ghostly summers seems… And murmur mid the immemorial tree… The tender slopes, where cattle br…
Ah, yesterday was dark and drear, My heart was deadly sore; Without thy love it seemed, my De… That I could live no more. And yet I laugh and sing to-day;
LOST amid gloom and solitude, A pool lies hidden in the wood, A pool the autumn rain has made Where flowers with their fair shad… Bare as a beggar’s board, the tree…
No butterfly whose frugal fare Is breath of heliotrope and clove, And other trifles light as air, Could live on less than doth my lo… That childlike smile that comes an…
With a Volume of Verses. TO you who dwell withdrawn, above The world’s tumultuous strife, And, in an atmosphere of love, Have triumphed over life;
O moon, large golden summer moon, Hanging between the linden trees, Which in the intermittent breeze Beat with the rhythmic pulse of J… O night-air, scented through and t…