Book: The Watchman and Other Poems

• Rain along Shore

  Wan white mists upon the sea,
  East wind harping mournfully

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• Sunrise along Shore

  Athwart the harbor lingers yet
  The ashen gleam of breaking day,<

  34 lines
• A Request

  When I am dead
  I would that ye make my bed

  23 lines
• The Watchman

  And for fear of Him the keepers did shake and become as dead men. ­-Matthew 28 and 4
  

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• Sea Sunset

  A gallant city has been builded far
  In the pied heaven,

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• When the Dark Comes Down

  When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea
  With lisping laugh and whimper to the red reef's threnody,

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• Harbor Moonrise

  There is never a wind to sing o'er the sea
  On its dimpled bosom that holdeth in fee

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• Before Storm

  There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman,
  The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry,

  16 lines, 1 comment
• On the Bay

  When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore,
  And frets the reef with its windy sallies,

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• A Shore Twilight

  Lo, find we here when the ripe day is o'er
  A kingdom of enchantment by the shore!

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• Song of the Sea-Wind

  When the sun sets over the long blue wave
  I spring from my couch of rest,

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• Morning along Shore

  Hark, oh hark the elfin laughter
  All the little waves along,

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• Off to the Fishing Ground

  There's a piping wind from a sunrise shore
  Blowing over a silver sea,

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• In Port

  Out of the fires of the sunset come we again to our own­
  We have girdled the world in our sailing under many an orient star;

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• The Gulls

  I
  Soft is the sky in the mist-kirtled east,

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• The Sea Spirit

  I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­
  Lo! the sea is fair,

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• Harbor Dawn

  There's a hush and stillness calm and deep,
  For the waves have wooed all the winds to sleep

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• My Longshore Lass

  Far in the mellow western sky,
  Above the restless harbor bar,

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• When the Fishing Boats Go Out

  When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more,
  And waves of golden glory break adown the sunrise shore,

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• The Bridal

  Last night a pale young Moon was wed
  Unto the amorous, eager Sea;

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• The Sea to the Shore

  Lo, I have loved thee long, long have I yearned and entreated!
  Tell me how I may win thee, tell me how I must woo.

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• The Voyagers

  We shall launch our shallop on waters blue from some dim primrose shore,
  We shall sail with the magic of dusk behind and enchanted coasts before,

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• Twilight and I Went Hand in Hand

  Twilight and I went hand in hand,
  As lovers walk in shining Mays,

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• Come, Rest Awhile

  Come, rest awhile, and let us idly stray
  In glimmering valleys, cool and far away.

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• An April Night

  The moon comes up o'er the deeps of the woods,
  And the long, low dingles that hide in the hills,

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• Rain on the Hill

  Now on the hill
  The fitful wind is so still

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• For Little Things

  Last night I looked across the hills
  And through an arch of darkling pine

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• Spring Song

  Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!

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• A Day Off

  Let us put awhile away
  All the cares of work-a-day,

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• The Wind

  O, wind! what saw you in the South,
  In lilied meadows fair and far?

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• The Wood Pool

  Here is a voice that soundeth low and far
  And lyric­voice of wind among the pines,

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• Down Stream

  Comrades, up! Let us row down stream in this first rare dawnlight,
  While far in the clear north-west the late moon whitens and wanes;

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• Echo Dell

  In a lone valley fair and far,
  Where many sweet beguilements are,

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• The Rovers

  Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover,
  That letters a message for us as for every vagrant rover;

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• Among the Pines

  Here let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken
  Music aeolian of wind in the boughs of pine,

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• A Day in the Open

  Ho, a day
  Whereon we may up and away,

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• Midnight in Camp

  Night in the unslumbering forest! From the free,
  Vast pinelands by the foot of man untrod,

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• The Hill Maples

  Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder,
  Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath of the years!

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• A Summer Day

  I
  The dawn laughs out on orient hills

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• September

  Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days
  Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways,

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• In Lovers' Lane

  I know a place for loitering feet
  Deep in the valley where the breeze

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• On the Hills

  Through the pungent hours of the afternoon,
  On the autumn slopes we have lightly wandered

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• An Autumn Evening

  Dark hills against a hollow crocus sky
  Scarfed with its crimson pennons, and below

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• November Evening

  Come, for the dusk is our own; let us fare forth together,
  With a quiet delight in our hearts for the ripe, still, autumn weather,

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• Out o'Doors

  There's a gypsy wind across the harvest land,
  Let us fare forth with it lightly hand in hand;

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• In the Days of the Golden Rod

  Across the meadow in brooding shadow
  I walk to drink of the autumn's wine­

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• A Winter Day

  I
  The air is silent save where stirs

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• Twilight

  From vales of dawn hath Day pursued the Night
  Who mocking fled, swift-sandalled, to the west,

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• The Call of the Winds

  Ho, come out with the wind of spring,
  And step it blithely in woodlands waking;

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• A Winter Dawn

  Above the marge of night a star still shines,
  And on the frosty hills the sombre pines

  8 lines, 2 comments
• The Forest Path

  Oh, the charm of idle dreaming
  Where the dappled shadows dance,

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• At Nightfall

  The dark is coming o'er the world, my playmate,
  And the fields where poplars stand are very still,

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• The Truce of Night

  Lo, it is dark,
  Save for the crystal spark

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• To My Enemy

  Let those who will of friendship sing,
  And to its guerdon grateful be,

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• As the Heart Hopes

  It is a year dear one, since you afar
  Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight­

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• Two Loves

  One said; "Lo, I would walk hand-clasped with thee
  Adown the ways of joy and sunlit slopes

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• The Christmas Night

  Wrapped was the world in slumber deep,
  By seaward valley and cedarn steep,

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• In an Old Farmhouse

  Outside the afterlight's lucent rose
  Is smiting the hills and brimming the valleys,

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• Memory Pictures

  I
  A wide-spring meadow in a rosy dawn

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• Down Home

  Down home to-night the moonshine falls
  Across a hill with daisies pied,

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• The Choice

  Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen,
  I care not for thee in such placid fashion!

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• Twilight in the Garden

  The scent of the earth is moist and good
  In the dewy shade

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• My Legacy

  My friend has gone away from me
  From shadow into perfect light,

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• Gratitude

  I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought
  That in words well chosen thou gavest to me,

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• Fancies

  Surely the flowers of a hundred springs
  Are simply the souls of beautiful things!

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• One of the Shepherds

  We were out on the hills that night
  To watch our sheep;

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• If Mary Had Known

  If Mary had known
  When she held her Babe's hands in her own­

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• At the Long Sault

  Searching the pile of corpses the victors found four Frenchmen still breathing. Three had scarcely a spark of life . . . the fourth seemed likely to survive

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• The Exile

  We told her that her far off shore was bleak and dour to view,
  And that her sky was dull and mirk while ours was smiling blue.

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• The Three Songs

  The poet sang of a battle-field
  Where doughty deeds were done,

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• In an Old Town Garden

  Shut from the clamor of the street
  By an old wall with lichen grown,

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• The Seeker

  I sought for my happiness over the world,
  Oh, eager and far was my quest;

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• The Poet's Thought

  It came to him in rainbow dreams,
  Blent with the wisdom of the sages,

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• The Call

  Mother of her who is close to my heart
  Cease to chide!

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• The Old Home Calls

  Come back to me, little dancing feet that roam the wide world o'er,
  I long for the lilt of your flying steps in my silent rooms once more;

  16 lines, 2 comments
• Genius

  A hundred generations have gone into its making,
  With all their love and tenderness, with all their dreams and tears;

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• Love's Prayer

  Beloved, this the heart I offer thee
  Is purified from old idolatry,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• The Prisoner

  I lash and writhe against my prison bars,
  And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd . .

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• Companioned

  I walked to-day, but not alone,
  Adown a windy, sea-girt lea,

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• You

  Only a long, low-lying lane
  That follows to the misty sea,

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• Unrecorded

  I like to think of the many words
  The Master in his early days

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• With Tears They Buried You Today

  With tears they buried you to-day,
  But well I knew no turf could hold

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• In Memory of Maggie

  A pussy-cat who was the household pet for seventeen years.
  

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• Realization

  I smiled with skeptic mocking where they told me you were dead,
  You of the airy laughter and lightly twinkling feet;

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• The Garden in Winter

  Frosty-white and cold it lies
  Underneath the fretful skies;

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• The Difference

  When we were together, heart of my heart, on that unforgotten quest,
  With your tender arm about me thrown and your head upon my breast,

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• The Poet

  There was strength in him and the weak won freely from it,
  There was an infinite pity, and hard hearts grew soft thereby,

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• The Mother

  Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping
  Warm in my arms,

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• To One Hated

  Hate is only Love that has missed its way.
  

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• While the Fates Sleep

  Come, let us to the sunways of the west,
  Hasten, while crystal dews the rose-cups fill,

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• The Farewell

  He rides away with sword and spur,
  Garbed in his warlike blazonry,

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• The Old Man's Grave

  Make it where the winds may sweep
  Through the pine boughs soft and deep,

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• Forever

  I
  With you I shall ever be;

  27 lines
• By an Autumn Fire

  Now at our casement the wind is shrilling,
  Poignant and keen

  30 lines

• By me, right now

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