Book: Along the Shore (1888)

• To G. P. L.

  We see the sky,--we love it day by day;
  We feel the wind of Spring, from blossoms winging;

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• Inlet and Shore

  Here is a world of changing glow,
  Where moods roll swiftly far and wide;

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• First Bloom of Love

  O girl of spring! O brown-eyed girl!
  Gathering violets near the woods,

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• Impersonality

  I dreamed within a dream the sun was gold;
  And as I walked beneath this golden sun,

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• The Outgoing Race

  The mothers wish for no more daughters;
  There is no future before them.

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• A Protean Glimpse

  Time and I pass to and fro,
  Hardly greeting as we go,--

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• The Cynic's Fealty

  We all have hearts that shake alike
  Beneath the arias of Fate's hand;

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• Power against Power

  [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]
  

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• Grace

  Ill-wrought life we look at as we die!
  Mistaken, selfish, meagre, and unmeet;

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• Life's Priestess

  All to herself a woman never sings
  A happy song. Oh no! but it is so

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• Looking Backward

  Gray towers make me think of thee,
  Thou girl of olden minstrelsy,

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• Love Now

  The sanctity that is about the dead
  To make us love them more than late, when here,

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• A Youth's Suicide

  He handed his life a poisoned draught,
  With a scornful smile and a cold, cold glance,

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• One and One

  The thanking heart can only silence keep;
  The breaking heart can only die alone:

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• The Roads That Meet

  Art
  One is so fair, I turn to go,

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• The Violin

  Touch gently, friend, and slow, the violin, So sweet and low,
  That my dreaming senses may be beckoned so

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• The Baby

  Pray, have you heard the news?
  Sturdy in lungs and thews,

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• Gertrude

  What shall I say, my friend, my own heart healing,
  When for my love you cannot answer me?

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• Dorothy

  Dear little Dorothy, she is no more!
  I have wandered world-wide, from shore to shore,

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• Unity In Space

  Take me away into a storm of snow
  So white and soft, I feel no deathly chill,

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• The Clock's Song

  Eileen of four,
  Eileen of smiles;

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• The Shell and The World

  The world was like a shell to me,--
  Its voice with distant song was low;

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• "Neither!"

  So ancient to myself I seem,
  I might have crossed grave Styx's stream

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• The Clock-Tower Bell

  Say not, sad bell, another hour hath come,
  Bare for the record of a world of crime;

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• In The Artillery

  We are moving on in silence,
  Save for rattling iron and steel,

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• Ours To Endure

  We speak of the world that passes away,--
  The world of men who lived years ago,

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• A Ballad Of The Mist

  "I love the Lady of Merle," he said.
  "She is not for thee!" her suitor cried.

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• Broken Waves

  The sun is lying on the garden-wall,
  The full red rose is sweetening all the air,

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• Closing Chords

  \Death's Eloquence\
  

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• Why Sad To-Day?

  Why is the nameless sorrowing look
  So often thought a whim?

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• Endless Resource

  New days are dear, and cannot be unloved,
  Though in deep grief we mourn, and cling to death;

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• The Ghosts of Revellers

  At purple eyes beside the grain,
  Our loves on altars we had burned,

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• A Waltz

  Delicate gayety,
  Strains of a violin;

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• Life's Burying-Ground

  My graveyard holds no once-loved human forms,
  Grown hideous and forgotten, left alone,

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• A Wooing Song

  O love, I come; thy last glance guideth me!
  Drawn, too, by webs of shadow, like thine hair;

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• Beyond Utterance

  There in the midst of gloom the church-spire rose,
  And not a star lit any side of heaven;

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• Morning Song

  Turn thy face to me, my love,
  I come from out the morning;

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• The Suicide

  A shadowed form before the light,
  A gleaming face against the night,

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• Unloved

  Paler than the water's white
  Stood the maiden in the shade,

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• For Others

  Weeping for another's woe,
  Tears flow then that would not flow

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• Broken-Hearted

  "Cross my hands upon my breast,"
  Read her last behest.

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• Zest

  Labor not in the murky dell,
  But till your harvest hill at morn;

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• The Girls We Might Have Wed

  Come, brothers, let us sing a dirge,--
  A dirge for myriad chances dead;

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• The Unperfected

  A broken mirror in a trembling hand;
  Sad, trembling lips that utter broken thought:

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• Used Up

  Hand me my light gloves, James;
  I'm off for the waltzing world,

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• God-Made

  Somewhere, somewhere in this heart
  There lies a jewel from the sea,

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• Twenty Bold Mariners

  Twenty bold mariners went to the wave,
  Twenty sweet breezes blew over the main;

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• A Song Before Grief

  Sorrow, my friend,
  When shall you come again?

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• The Lost Battle

  To his heart it struck such terror
  That he laughed a laugh of scorn,--

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• Pride: Fate

  Lullaby on the wing
  Of my song, O my own!

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• Hidden History

  There was a maiden in a land
  Was buried with all honor fine,

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• Francie

  I loved a child as we should love
  Each other everywhere;

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• The Dreaming Wheel

  Down slant the moonbeams to the floor
  Through the garret's scented air,

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• Lost Reality

  O soul of life, 't is thee we long to hear,
  Thine eyes we seek for, and thy touch we dream;

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• A Passing Voice

  "Turn me a rhyme," said Fate,
  "Turn me a rhyme:

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• By me, right now

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