55 submissions in this 'volume'.
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"Home," he said, and westward turning,
Looked upon the setting sun.
26 lines
What, woman, is my debt to thee,
That I should not deny
4 lines
'Tis strange, but ominously true,
When we are bright the skies are blue;
4 lines
*Look* on Thy Mother's face,
That miracle of grace,
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All others rest; but I
Dream-haunted lie—
23 lines, 3 comments
Mary--'tis a tender plea;
Love is strong as Infamy;
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Discord--the curse of Babel--done,
The world, divided, hears as one
6 lines
\MAY 1879\
Father;--for loftier titles cannot hide
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St. Peter is the cornerstone,
And if you build on Paul,
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\JUNE 1879\
In exile, widowed, childless, desolate,
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Among the sages while He sat,
And they delighted heard,
6 lines
'Tis read of one, a ferryman of old,
St. Christopher, who on his shoulders bore,
14 lines
No peak to hide his splendour till the day
Has passed away;
6 lines
I saw the grave of Shakespeare in a dream,
And round about it grouped a wondrous throng,
14 lines
Where wast thou, little song,
That hast delayed so long
12 lines
As light on lids that slumber, warms unseen,
So now, thy veiled presence breathing near,
14 lines
In France they question now: Is Combes'
The right of teaching Faith, or Rome's?
6 lines
I lift mine eyes, and lo! impetuous tears
Bedim them, as the tides of thought o'erflow
14 lines
His cloistered God the unborn messenger
Exulting, leaped to hear:
6 lines
As one who on the precincts of a shrine,
Treads softly, lest his footfall, echoing there,
14 lines
O thongs, for thirst
Of fiends accurst,
8 lines
The Night encamps around thee. From afar,
The bannered hosts of outer darkness throng,
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Good night, dear Lord! and now
Let them that loved to keep
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Thy face is whitened with remembered woe;
For thou alone, pale satellite, didst see,
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Me, in the midst of dateless centuries,
By Love concealed,
12 lines
Hail, trackless waste! a heart made desolate
Speeds from a sterner solitude to thee!
14 lines
O little child, that once was I,
And still in part must be,
16 lines
Companion of my vigil, silently,
At midnight, when the voiceful world is still,
14 lines
At Christmas time from clime to clime
Each star to star doth sweetly chime,
6 lines
"Somewhere beneath the blinding snows--
A smouldering senser, burns my rose;
8 lines, 1 comment
This is the Catholic priest
Who in piety never increased.
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I stand beneath the native tree
That guards the spot where thou art laid;
8 lines
They might not need me
Yet they might;
8 lines
Here buried side by side
We long have waited with between us two
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There once were two brothers named Wright
Who rose in aerial flight;
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'Twas not for gain of glittering gold he trod
Alaska's frozen loin;
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So small that lesser lowliness
Must bow to worship or caress:
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Into the charnel hall of fame
The dead alone should go.
4 lines, 3 comments
Oh, wherefore were we torn,
Reluctant, from the bough,
8 lines
His Peck-ability to show
Let Harry Thurston Peck at Poe,
6 lines, 1 comment
On Sinai did the cloud,
His glory shroud;
8 lines
Dead fifty years? No so,
Nay, fifty years ago
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Thee, Mother-Queen of Heaven,
He crowned,
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We've come to give you Liberty
To do what'er \we\ choose;
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Thou that didst leave the ninety & the nine
To seek the one,
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Nurtured upon my Mother's knee,
From this, her mountain breast, apart;
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The day--of sorrows pitiless--
Proclaims "He is not here";
8 lines
The River to the Sea,
In language of the Land,
12 lines
Are you dying, little Bird?
"Yea; the song so often heard,
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Alone I am, but lonelier
The Twilight seems to be;
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Despite the North Wind's boast,
Despite the muffled host
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Still sing the Morning Stars remote
With echoes now unheard,
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*I only*, its mother, have known
The life that is taken away.
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As stars amid the darkness seen,
When flows the deepening dawn between
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LOVE ye the lives that far below
Upon your bounty upward grow?
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