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My Trust
My Trust
A picture memory brings to me
I look across the years and see
Myself beside my mother's knee.
I feel her gentle …
My Triumph
My Triumph
The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom,
And over purpling vines,
The low sun fainter shines.
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My Soul And I
My Soul And I
Stand still, my soul, in the silent dark
I would question thee,
Alone in the shadow drear and stark
With God and me!
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My Playmate
My Playmate
The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
Their song was soft and low;
The blossoms in the sweet May wind
Were falling like the sno…
My Dream
My Dream
In my dream, methought I trod,
Yesternight, a mountain road;
Narrow as Al Sirat's span,
High as eagle's flight, it ran.
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Mulford
Mulford
Unnoted as the setting of a star
He passed; and sect and party scarcely knew
When from their midst a sage and seer withdrew
Moloch In State Street
Moloch In State Street
THE moon has set: while yet the dawn
Breaks cold and gray,
Between the midnight and the morn
Bear off your prey! <…
Mogg Megone - Part II.
Mogg Megone - Part II.
'Tis morning over Norridgewock, On
tree and wigwam, wave and rock.
Bathed in the autumnal sunshine, stirred
At int…
Memories
Memories
A beautiful and happy girl,
With step as light as summer air,
Eyes glad with smiles, and brow of pearl,
Shadowed by many…
Mithridates At Chios
Mithridates At Chios
KNOW'ST thou, O slave-cursed land!
How, when the Chian's cup of guilt
Was full to overflow, there came
God's justice…
Massachusetts To Virginia
Massachusetts To Virginia
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way,
Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay:
No w…
Marguerite
Marguerite
MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1760.
THE robins sang in the orchard, the buds into
blossoms grew;
Little of human sorrow t…
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,
By thought unviolated;
A patient mouth, to take from scorn
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Lydia H. Sigourney
Lydia H. Sigourney
She sang alone, ere womanhood had known
The gift of song which fills the air to-day
Tender and sweet, a music all her own
Lines on A Fly-Leaf
Lines on A Fly-Leaf
I need not ask thee, for my sake,
To read a book which well may make
Its way by native force of wit
Without my manual…
Lexington
Lexington
1775.
No Berserk thirst of blood had they,
No battle-joy was theirs, who set
Against the alien bayonet
…
Leggett’s Monument
Leggett’s Monument
Yes, pile the marble o'er him! It is well
That ye who mocked him in his long stern strife,
And planted in the pathway of his l…
Laying Up Treasure
Laying Up Treasure
From the Mahabharata.
Before the Ender comes, whose charioteer
Is swift or slow Disease, lay up each year
Thy …
King Volmer and Elsie
King Volmer and Elsie
After the Danish of Christian Winter
Where, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the Horg,
In its little Chri…
Kossuth
Kossuth
Type of two mighty continents!--combining
The strength of Europe with the warmth and glow
Of Asian song and prophecy,--the shinin…
Kenoza Lake
Kenoza Lake
As Adam did in Paradise,
To-day the primal right we claim
Fair mirror of the woods and skies,
We give to thee a name.
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Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)
Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)
"Tie stille, barn min!
Imorgen kommer Fin,
Fa'er din,
Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine o…
John Underhill
John Underhill
A score of years had come and gone
Since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,
When Captain Underhill, bearing scars
From…
Italy
Italy
ACROSS the sea I heard the groans
Of nations in the intervals
Of wind and wave. Their blood and bones
Cried out in torture,…