Book: The White Bees and Other Poems

• Shelley

  Knight-errant of the Never-ending Quest,
  And Minstrel of the Unfulfilled Desire;

  14 lines
• Mother Earth

  Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed,
  Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field,

  24 lines, 1 comment
• Doors of Daring

  The mountains that enfold the vale
      With walls of granite, steep and high,

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Milton

  I
  Lover of beauty, walking on the height

  45 lines
• Departure

  Oh, why are you shining so bright, big Sun,
  And why is the garden so gay?

  16 lines, 1 comment
• Nepenthe

  Yes, it was like you to forget,
  And cancel in the welcome of your smile

  49 lines
• The Black Birds

  I
  Once, only once, I saw it clear, --

  73 lines, 1 comment
• New Year's Eve

  I
  The other night I had a dream, most clear

  125 lines
• Stars and the Soul

  To Charles A. Young, Astronomer
  \

  29 lines
• Longfellow

  In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour
  and riches and confusion,

  72 lines
• A Lover's Envy

  I envy every flower that blows
  Along the meadow where she goes,

  20 lines
• A Home Song

  I read within a poet's book
  A word that starred the page:

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Twilight in the Alps

  I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair
  And dewy feet, along the Alpine dells

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Arrival

  Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land,
  Along a path I had not traced and could not understand,

  12 lines
• The Ancestral Dwelling

  Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America,
  Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal splendour;

  36 lines
• Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch
  Of beauty or of truth,

  16 lines
• Hudson's Last Voyage

  June 22, 1611
  THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY

  181 lines
• Keats

  The melancholy gift Aurora gained
  From Jove, that her sad lover should not see

  14 lines
• Jeanne d'Arc

  The land was broken in despair,
  The princes quarrelled in the dark,

  25 lines
• Francis Makemie

  (Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708)
  To thee, plain hero of a rugged race,

  15 lines, 1 comment
• The Window

  All night long, by a distant bell,
      The passing hours were notched

  28 lines
• Urbs Coronata

  (Song for the City College of New York)
  O youngest of the giant brood

  26 lines
• Sicily, December 1908

  O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, --
  Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays,

  14 lines
• Without Disguise

  If I have erred in showing all my heart,
  And lost your favour by a lack of pride;

  14 lines, 2 comments
• The Gentle Traveller

  Through many a land your journey ran,
  And showed the best the world can boast:

  8 lines
• Hesper

  Her eyes are like the evening air,
  Her voice is like a rose,

  12 lines
• Fire-Fly City

  Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting,
  Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of love's delight:

  24 lines
• Late Spring

  I
  Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days,

  84 lines
• The Hermit Thrush

  O wonderful! How liquid clear
  The molten gold of that ethereal tone,

  20 lines
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  I
  BIRTHDAY VERSES

  43 lines
• My April Lady

  When down the stair at morning
  The sunbeams round her float,

  24 lines
• Robert Browning

  How blind the toil that burrows like the mole,
  In winding graveyard pathways underground,

  14 lines
• Love in a Look

  Let me but feel thy look's embrace,
  Transparent, pure, and warm,

  16 lines
• Wordsworth

  Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
  Among the mountains, and thy song is fed

  14 lines
• Undine

  'T was far away and long ago,
  When I was but a dreaming boy,

  8 lines
• National Monuments

  Count not the cost of honour to the dead!
  The tribute that a mighty nation pays

  14 lines
• Pan Learns Music

  Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock,
  Where is sweet Echo, and where is your flock?

  4 lines
• An American in Europe

  'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down
  Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,

  24 lines
• To Julia Marlowe

  Long had I loved this \

  4 lines
• America

  I love thine inland seas,
  Thy groves of giant trees,

  17 lines
• Master Of Music

  Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard,
  Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, --

  16 lines
• Sea-Gulls of Manhattan

  Children of the elemental mother,
  Born upon some lonely island shore

  40 lines, 1 comment
• Gratitude

  "Do you give thanks for this? -- or that?"
  No, God be thanked

  17 lines
• The White Bees

  I
  LEGEND

  193 lines

• By me, right now

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