OH tell me not of heavenly halls, Of streets of pearl and gates of g… Where angel unto angel calls 'Mid splendors of the sky untold; My homesick heart would backward t…

THE barley bows from the west Before the delicate breeze That many a sail caressed As it swept the sapphire seas. It has found the garden sweet,

SHE turned the letter’s rustling… Made bright the air about her whil… “I come to you to-morrow, love; me… Love me, my sweet,” he said. “What other business has my life?”…

SKELETON schooner, looming str… Wasted and blurred by the bitter c… Whither goest thou, stiff and star… Steerest thou for, through the fre… Wherefore strivest thou, fighting…

WHEN the darkness drew away at t… I heard the medricks screaming lou… And I wondered to behold all the… Flashing into fire and flame where… Red the sea ran east and west, bur…

THE quiet room, the flowers, the… The slender crystal vase, where al… The scarlet poppies stand erect an… Color that burns as if no frost co… The shaded lamplight glowing over…

SO bleak these shores, wind-swept… Washed by the wild Atlantic’s res… You would not dream that flowers t… Amid such desolation dare abide. Yet when the bitter winter breaks,…

THE lilies clustered fair and tal… I stood outside the garden wall; I saw her light robe glimmering th… The fragrant evening’s dusk and de… She stooped above the lilies pale;

SEE how the wind is hauling point… By the boats in the little harbor,… And the coasting craft emerge from… And on the rocks the breakers rela… At last is the tempest ended, the…

LAZILY, through the warm gray a… We sailed toward the land; Over the long sweep of the billows… We saw on either hand Peninsula and cape and silver beac…

THIS grassy gorge, as daylight f… I traversed toward the west, where… Bent like Diana’s bow and silver… Half lost in rosy haze, a crescent… I paused upon the beach’s upper ed…

THE wide, still, moonlit water mi… Stretches in lonely splendor. Whi… About us from the midnight wind, a… Among the flowers that breathe so… A soft touch sways the milk-white,…

HARK, how sweet the thrushes sin… Hark, how clear the robins call! Chorus of the happy spring, Summer’s madrigal! Flood the world with joy and cheer…

DOWN San Miniato in the afterno… Slowly we drove through still and… 'T was winter, but the day was sof… Florence was spread beneath us, pa… The matchless city! Set about wit…

“OH heaven bless you, heaven keep… It was God’s hand that dropped th… Upon her head, and clothed in pray… Her soul as saints are robed from… Gone is the beautiful beloved voic…