To Blossoms
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is…
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is…
Love
Cool Tombs
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin…
A Deed and a Word
A little stream had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger…
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger…
The Hope Of My Heart
“Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine.”
I left, to earth, a little…
True Dignity
IF thou be one whose heart the holy forms
Of young imagination have kept pure,…
Of young imagination have kept pure,…
An Invocation
To God, the everlasting, who abides,
One Life within things infinite that die:
To Him…
One Life within things infinite that die:
To Him…
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
It is portentous, and a thing of state
That here at midnight, in our little…
That here at midnight, in our little…
Study Me Then, You Who Shall Lovers Be
Study me then, you who shall lovers be
At the next world, that is, at…
At the next world, that is, at…
The Burning Babe
As I in hoary winter’s night
Stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with…
Stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with…
A Dream of Death
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand;
And…
Near no accustomed hand;
And…