Book: Music and Other Poems

• Reliance

  Not to the swift, the race:
  Not to the strong, the fight:

  20 lines
• The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens

  This is the soldier brave enough to tell
  The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell':

  4 lines
• The Vain King

  In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest,
  A jewelled collar shone upon his breast,

  127 lines
• Inscriptions for a Friend's House

  THE HOUSE
  The cornerstone in Truth is laid,

  24 lines
• Two Schools

  I put my heart to school
  In the world, where men grow wise,

  19 lines
• The Message

  Waking from tender sleep,
  My neighbour's little child

  20 lines
• Time Is

  Time is
  Too Slow for those who Wait,

  7 lines, 3 comments
• One World

  "The worlds in which we live are two
  The world 'I am' and the world 'I do.'"

  6 lines, 3 comments
• A Child in the Garden

  When to the garden of untroubled thought
  I came of late, and saw the open door,

  14 lines, 3 comments
• A Health to Mark Twain

  At his Birthday Feast
  With memories old and wishes new

  15 lines
• The Wind of Sorrow

  The fire of love was burning, yet so low
  That in the dark we scarce could see its rays,

  14 lines
• A Prayer for a Mother's Birthday

  Lord Jesus, Thou hast known
  A mother's love and tender care:

  24 lines
• Love

  Let me but love my love without disguise,
  Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,

  14 lines
• Dulcis Memoria

  Long, long ago I heard a little song,
  (Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?)

  28 lines
• Love's Reason

  For that thy face is fair I love thee not;
  Nor yet because the light of thy brown eyes

  14 lines
• Katrina's Sun-Dial

  Hours fly,
  Flowers die:

  6 lines
• Love's Nearness

  I think of thee, when golden sunbeams shimmer
  Across the sea;

  17 lines
• The Mocking-Bird

  In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon,
  Catching the lilt of every easy tune;

  4 lines
• Music

  I
  PRELUDE

  343 lines
• Spring in the South

  Now in the oak the sap of life is welling,
  Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings;

  32 lines
• Peace

  I
  IN EXCELSIS

  90 lines
• Indian Summer

  A soft veil dims the tender skies,
  And half conceals from pensive eyes

  0 lines, 2 comments
• Victor Hugo

  Heart of France for a hundred years,
  Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong,

  61 lines
• Hide and Seek

  All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still,
  All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the hill;

  41 lines
• God of the Open Air

  I
  Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair

  161 lines
• Autumn in the Garden

  When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark
  Makes its mark

  40 lines
• Work

  Let me but do my work from day to day,
      In field or forest, at the desk or loom,

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Light Between the Trees

  Long, long, long the trail
  Through the brooding forest-gloom,

  48 lines
• Portrait and Reality

  If on the closed curtain of my sight
  My fancy paints thy portrait far away,

  14 lines
• To James Whitcomb Riley

  On his "Book of Joyous Children"
  Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers;

  17 lines
• Patria

  I would not even ask my heart to say
  If I could love some other land as well

  14 lines
• A Rondeau of College Rhymes

  Our college rhymes,--how light they seem,
  Like little ghosts of love's young dream

  15 lines, 1 comment
• A Legend of Service

  It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!)
  To hear, one day, report from those who came

  104 lines
• The Empty Quatrain

  A flawless cup: how delicate and fine
  The flowing curve of every jewelled line!

  4 lines
• A Mile With Me

  O who will walk a mile with me
  Along life's merry way?

  20 lines, 2 comments
• The Sun-Dial at Wells College

  The shadow by my finger cast
  Divides the future from the past:

  8 lines

• By me, right now

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