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Wild Bees
Wild Bees These children of the sun which summer brings As pastoral minstrels in her merry train Pipe rustic ballads upon busy wings And glad the cotters' quiet toils again. Th…
Lover's Gifts XLVII: The Road Is
Lover's Gifts XLVII: The Road Is The road is my wedded companion. She speaks to me under my feet all day, she sings to my dreams all night. My meeting with her had no beginnin…
Our Fathers Also
"Our Fathers Also" Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also see these things But they do not understand. By--they are by with m…
The Happy Couple
The Happy Couple AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! We cast our distant gaze Far in the misty…
The Evening Star
The Evening Star Lo! in the paintedoriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines, Like a fair lady at her casement, shines The evening star, the star of love an…
Wilful Missing
Wilful Missing (Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the place where "wilful-missings" go, As we can testify…
Snow Day
Snow Day Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness, and beyond thes…
Autumn
Autumn The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still, On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot; Through…
Warble Of Lilac-Time
Warble Of Lilac-Time WARBLE me now, for joy of Lilac-time, Sort me, O tongue and lips, for Nature's sake, and sweet life's sake--and death's the same as life's, Souvenirs of e…
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring…
Last of The Flock, The
Last of The Flock, The I In distant countries have I been, And yet I have not often seen A healthy man, a man full grown, Weep in the public roads, alone. But such a one, on Eng…
Lines Addressed To A Young Lady
Lines Addressed To A Young Lady Doubtless, sweet girl! the hissing lead, Wafting destruction o'er thy charms, And hurtling o'er thy lovely head, Has fill'd that breast with fon…
Gertrude's Prayer
Gertrude's Prayer That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend, Nor water out of bitter well make clean; All evil thing returneth at the end, Or elseway walketh in our bloo…
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 56. So careful of the type? but no
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 56. So careful of the type? but no "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care…
M'Andrew's Hymn
M'Andrew's Hymn Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so -- exceptin' always Steam. From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I…
Windsor Poetics : Lines Composed On The Occasion Of His Royal Highness The
Windsor Poetics : Lines Composed On The Occasion Of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent Being Seen Standing Between The Coffins Of Henry VIII And Charles I, In The Royal Vault…
The Song of the Women
The Song of the Women How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How shall the woman's message reach unto her Above the tumult of t…
The Best Thing in the World
The Best Thing in the World What's the best thing in the world? June-rose, by May-dew impearled; Sweet south-wind, that means no rain; Truth, not cruel to a friend; Pleasure, n…
Twice a Week the Winter Thorough
Twice a Week the Winter Thorough Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's soul. Now in Maytime to…
Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals
Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals Elephants of the Gun-Teams We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees. We bowed our nec…
As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free
As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America, Such b…
Gipsy Song
Gipsy Song IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd, In the Winter night, in the forest wild, I heard the wolves with their ravenous howl, I heard the screaming note of…
September
September We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold: No clock counts this. When kisses are repeated and the arms hold There is no telling where time is. It is midsummer: th…
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought t…