241 submissions in this volume.
A rat attempting once to peel
A sleeping lad, named Nick O'Neil,
4 lines
If the fat-lip
Come from cat-nip,
4 lines, 1 comment
If what I have sung--
Stirred the heart of a youngster,
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Dear Sir:
It is a cruel stab
5 lines
'Tis evident that such a name
As mine to Mr. Dobson came,
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'Tis not with \gold\, I hear,
The Wise Man starts to Frisco!
6 lines
No man, dear doctor, can deny
Your rhymes are worthy of your Rye.
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"Pere ---'s dead! Ah, it is well;
He'll never worry us in hell!"
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"His sins were long ago forgiven;
So let him pass \at once\ to heaven."
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"He did God's will by night and day,
But always in the devil's way."
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"'Twould lessen joy or deepen woe,
If where \he\ went \we'd\ have to go."
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I'll be hanged if you haven't done well
To hang up a rebel who likes to rebel;
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Contrasts are striking, Teddy knows;
And so, for a variety,
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We wonder much how Roose-felt
When Booker Washington he smelt;
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"Tabb's dead! and we who always keep
The Rule of Silence when we sleep,
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O wind and waters, ye alone
Have chanted the primeval tone
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It died so young! and yet,
Of all that vanished hence,
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Till comes the crescent Moon,
We worship each a Star;
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"Thou shalt no graven image make;"
And yet, O sculptor, for the sake
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Thou sleepest sound, and I
Anear thee lie,
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A spirit from the grave
Again I come,
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Here, where to pinching penury the gloom
Of Death was wedded, came Immortal Love,
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Before the dawn, 'tis light,
If Hope the vigil keep;
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In boreal calm the spirit feels
A far-off thunder-roll,
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Love told a Star the vision that beguiled
His slumber; and the Darkness, hearing, smiled.
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When a poet gives his \hand\,
Meet it is to greet the greeter.
4 lines
The prophet Star, the Maiden Dawn, the Sun--
So light begins his reign;
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Thou hast the final touch supplied
That till thy coming was denied--
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The vital vapors to absorb,
The moon, with famished gaze,
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We are alone!
The night-winds moan
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How slight soe'er the motion be,
With palpitating hand
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Like inland streams, O Sea,
Thro' joy and pain
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The fairest blossom of the light
Was nurtured in the womb of Night,
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The lordliest at Arthur's Table Round
No loftier than thou,
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If this the preface be of death
In crimson, green, and gold,
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Now from the throne of England one is borne,
Whom all men mourn,
4 lines
Lord, wheresoe'er I am, Thou art,
In love subservient to me,
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"Behold the aged Lion, Lord,
I am,
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I give thee, love, a carcanet,
With all the rainbow splendor set,
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We sighed of old till underneath His feet
Our pulses beat,
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Friend of the dusky visage, whereupon
When all things else have yielded to the light
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A mother she in Israel,
With eyes, like Jacob's well,
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I laid me down in solitude, but not alone:
The night was with me, and the stars above me shone;
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This is the way to Lullaby Town,
To Lullaby Town, to Lullaby Town--
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O wave upon the strand!
What urges thee in vain
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And have ye come again,
Dim seedling of the Dew?
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A net to catch the earliest gleam
Of westward swimming light;
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Above the fathomed deep
Of Death, we move in sleep,
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So ticklish is my skin
That if you touch my side
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Good morning, Lord! For little boys
The Day more generous to joys
6 lines
How hast thou, little spring,
The heart to sing,
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In my body bides a guest,
Time-born for Eternity--
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Behold in every crimson glow
Of earth and sky and sea,
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The children of the night,
The star, the glowworm bright,
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As once, the seal of Solomon beneath,
The Genius in bonds, rebellious lay;
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Heeds yonder star thy song,
O warbler of the night?
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Since to my smiting enemy
Thou biddest me be meek,
4 lines
Genevieve was all to me,
Heart to heart we toiled together;
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In the shadow of the rood,
Broken-hearted there she stood
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Let every South American beware,
for lo! the strenuous man,
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Bishop Potter, finding hotter
Passions than there used to be,
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"Some said it thundered."
The Father speaking to the Son,
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Peacemakers ye, the daisies, from the soil
Upbreathing wordless messages of love,
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The little dome that holds the brain
Whereby he measures from afar,
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It was a very little Boy
That on the river side
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The same blue-bending dome encanopies
Thine ashes and the spark that kindles mine;
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I know not whence; but on the morning air
A ghastly whisper pales my waking cheek;
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It stands like Night,
The sepulchre of a departed light,
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Into the lonely room,
Spawning an icy gloom,
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When God created man,
Of destiny so dim,
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Soul, that in music, as a flower in light,
Didst gem, and bloom, and vanish, with a breath
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Fair sorceress, upon thy calm domain
We gaze in ceaseless wonder, compassed round
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Still westward with the lessening light ye go,
Dejected people, and the forests tall,
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As when at Mary's voice Elizabeth
Felt in her womb the restlessness of feet
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This is the chart that tells of one who went,
Like John, into the wilderness alone--
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How far soe'er thou wanderest from His law,
The gift of God we reverence in thee,
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"Heaven is not far," the Violet saith,
"The fragrance of my censer-breath,
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When first I wakened from the night,
Within that lonely room,
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Break, silent Dawn, and flood with light
The fathomless abyss of night;
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Here, where untainted flesh
Hath dread
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The Brook goes babbling to the Sea
In language of the Land,
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The Moon, like Mary, bore to be
The partner of His agony.
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O Time, where hast thou laid
My Self of yesterday?
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\Out of the Eater, meat:\
Thou dost the streams devour.
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Nay, thou hast not my heart
Or I such cruel smart
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"Each plays his part and goes his way,"
Our hearts at seeming distance say;
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God speed thee, setting sun!
Thy beams for me have spun
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Do the blossoms come and go
As the waters ebb and flow?
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'Tis spring; but laid
In ambuscade
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The lone horizon listening seems to thee
As to a soul beloved--
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Thou canst not die; for who can slay
A spirit like to thee?
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To highest heaven the Lark alone
Of earthly messengers is known;
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Ever old and ever new,
Else it never could be true.
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What say the flowers above Ophelia's tomb?
"We bloom to fade; she faded but to bloom."
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I seek the poles of Being; but the breath of icy death
That bans the sailor from the utmost sea
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As on the lids of slumber lies a dream,
Or fragrance on the petals of a flower,
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Time will tell us: only wait;
He alone the secret knows,
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"Behold Thy Mother! 'Tis the loss
Of heaven, the load of shame,
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They climb with eager feet,
One east, one west,
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The white lips just above the ground
Where sleeps my latest-born, I found;
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A little warbler dead--
A muted melody
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O Winter-Wind, behold,
You call no more in vain,
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He crept behind me, and his gentle hand
Laid on my lids, lest I too soon should see
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On Regan and on Goneril--
The rugged rocks below--
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I count the wrinkles in the road,
As men are wont to trace
8 lines, 1 comment
No seed of Joy within us lies.
So, if our souls the blossom bear,
8 lines
"Unlocked his heart?" Not he!
Of \thine\ the cunning key
4 lines
Beneath the dome of Yesterday,
My buried Self I see--
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Sweet spirits born together
To dwell in orbs apart,
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I go; but thou, my Song,
Shall live as long
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I bade him sleep, and he obeyed;
But when I called him back to pain
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I love you; and because you do not love,
I am the poorer and the richer, too;
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E'en so; and where the fountain flows along,
Unsatisfied, the burning lips of Love
4 lines, 1 comment
"Till Death do us part,
Ever one to remain,"
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O tender Mother, blind and dumb,
Who dost to all thy children come
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Little blossom, thou and I
Both were born alike to die.
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In silence from the earth we rise
To learn the language of the skies;
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Make me, O Cloud, thy comrade! Let me be
As thou, the silent Sister of the Wind;
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Though from the waking world withdrawn,
Night's boundary to keep,
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So, he who Samson-like of sound
Hath wrought our captive chains
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He woke to clasp the vision of his dream.
A self from self divided, that apart--
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Each soul a sunbeam in a shroud
Of folding mist appears;
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An eagle on the summit--Hope and Fear,
Alternate pinions, moving restlessly.
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"I'll go to bed at noon."
Ah, Fool, 'twas wisely said;
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Since that the unfulfilled desire of Shame
Meets the full-measured blame,
4 lines
In boreal calm thy spirit feels
A far-off thunder roll;
4 lines
O Wind, like raging Lear forlorn,
Against the sharp opposing thorne
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Like Martha, she, with question manifold,
Pursues her daily round;
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A house of hands not builded like the sky,
O'erbending, but unsullied by the sod--
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"How is it you are laughing, dear,
With both your eyes a-twinkle?
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No need, O weary traveller,
To seek the ocean far;
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With 'leven, it were not surprising
Should Abdul get another rising,
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"Well, Pat, have you no more to say?"
"That's all, yer Riverence, today;
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I love, as when a boy,
That note exultant of domestic joy,
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As they have safely reached the Church,
It seems a thing to smile at
4 lines
A fellow with a gouty foot
Was on a restless donkey put,
6 lines
"An effort gigantic,"
Exclaims the Atlantic,
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Alas! what shall I do?
I have lost my nearest friend;
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He offered but a poor defence,
That advocate of mine;
12 lines
There was an old maid of Algeria
Whose lungs were but cells of bacteria;
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Tho' gay its life, in fact and fable,
In death its fate is lamb-on-table.
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My mother was a Mare;
My father was, alas,
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Asked a possum of a canner
In his most seductive manner,
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Her doctor advising, a victim of grippe
Set out on a journey to Rome;
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D. D. O. sioux, appeal to you?
And D. D. favor win?
4 lines
O'Gorman comes! Your knives unsheathe,
To slice so sweet an appetiser!
5 lines
Tho' the modern woman \pants\
To disguise her gender,
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"Job-Printing!" I suspected so,
For none was ever half so slow
4 lines
Little Sister of the Poor,
Asking alms from door to door,
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He sits alone in the belfry,
A feeble man and gray,
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Dead! Found in the desolate street
Where the drifting snow had silently piled
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Now the dusky wing of twilight
Hovers o'er the weary day,
24 lines, 1 comment
The leaves upon the summer tree
Hang side by side,
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Thou art the blessed Tree
Whose fruit proclaimeth thee,
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Lord, what Thou lendest me is Thine;
Nor less beneath Thy care,
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Our dreams but tell the thoughts of those
Around us; e'en as water shows
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Of myriads, but one hath found
The sesame that opes the ground,
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Give me Thyself to see
In what is least to me:
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To me the trembling Adam fled in shame
From God's avenging eye;
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Thou lookest on the lonely place,
To find no more the sleeping face,
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To leave what most we love, in loneliness,
To know our absence in some heart will make
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As the petals fall away
Briefer grows the autumn day;
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Sweet Eglantine, this breath of thine--
Mute eloquence of what was mine--
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Since such alone can of Thy kingdom be,
A little child Thou comest unto me;
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Talk not of childhood's thoughtless joy!
I would not be again a boy
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Behold the living "House of Prayer"
Above the waves uplifted; where
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I saw in heaven, the hovering wings beneath,
A Shade unbanished by the Light above:
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Christlike falls the golden grain;
Christlike doth it rise again;
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Blest be the sword that cleft her heart in twain!
Else had the "pondered word" forever lain
6 lines
Cries Death, "O Man, thy liberty,
What boots it! Low thou bowest the knee
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A fairy canopy it seems,
By magic fingers spread;
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Thou that couldst ne'er be bound
Canst nevermore be free:
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When Eve, the twilight heavens to view,
Her eyes, like twin-born violets blue,
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Ye Angels, lo, an angel unto you,
His Guardians, I commend.
4 lines
A bird that twitters where storm-treachery
Hath fanged the oak, whose nest-supporting limb,
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We blossom in the border land
When pilgrim shadows strew
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The voice that late with music thrilled
The world, in silence now is stilled.
4 lines
'Twas fit that with the falling year
He too should fall;
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Sighed a poet when his fame
After fifty winters came
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Nothing is vain: a stifled sigh
Life's passion pang betrays:
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No mother minds so tenderly
Her babe, to mirror back its smiles,
4 lines
How many larks are soaring--
How many voices loud--
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Upon thy face alone no trace
Of Time, no touch of sorrow;
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The tints that fly the autumn leaves,
The leaves that fly the tree,
4 lines
Amid the stores of Opulence,
If \Courtesy\ is scant,
4 lines
Dead in the desert! with the great white moon
Above him and around him wastes of sand,
4 lines, 2 comments
Though Silence shuts the gate of Song,
I keep thereof the key,
4 lines
When roars the wind and beats the rain,
A face before my window-pane--
8 lines
The wafture of a thousand flowers is here
Concentrated from afar,
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Lo, all I have is Thine--
My wealth, my poverty.
6 lines
The latest beacon spark
Upon the western way
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I am Thy captive; break Thou not my chain;
Beyond my dungeon all is death to me.
4 lines
Is then the light so near
That seems so far to me?
12 lines
The mist commingled with her tears
The while she watched his form--
8 lines
I heard the distant summons loud
To battle, from the crested Cloud,
6 lines
A stranger, to his own
He came; and one alone,
12 lines
'Tis one by one we come and go;
'Tis one by one we stand or fall;
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Lo, silence, like a roving bee
Upon her daily round,
8 lines
If what unto the least I do,
I do it unto thee,
4 lines
Time was when Faith and Reason trod
With wedded hands the ways of God,
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