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Book: The Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics

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  • The Deserter
    I know not why or whence he came
    Or how he chanced to go;
    12 lines
  • Is This the Price of Love?
    Never again the sight of her?
    Never her winsome smile
    16 lines
  • Ego
    Day passeth day in sunshine or shadow,
    Night unto night each cycle is told;
    20 lines
  • Love
    Love is the soothing voice of gods
    To which men ever list.
    4 lines
  • Dreams
    There is naught in the pathless reach
    Of the pale, blue sky above,
    12 lines
  • Remembrance
    Forget?
    Ah, never!
    18 lines
  • Then I Would Love You
    Were you to come,
    With your clear, gray eyes
    24 lines
  • An April Day
    On such a day as this I think,
    On such a day as this,
    8 lines
  • O, Little David, Play on Your Harp
    O, Little David, play on your harp,
    That ivory harp with the golden strings
    42 lines
  • To Florence
    Sister, when at the grassy mound I stand
    Which holds in cold embrace thy mortal frame,
    11 lines
  • Sonnet to Negro Soldiers
    They shall go down unto Life's Borderland,
    Walk unafraid within that Living Hell,
    14 lines
  • Inconstancy
    Blue eyes, gray eyes,
    All the eyes that be,
    8 lines
  • And Thou Art One
    And Thou art One--One with th' eternal hills,
    And with the flaming stars, and with the moon,
    14 lines
  • The Goal
    I have found joy,
    Surcease from sorrow,
    16 lines
  • I would not tarry if I could be gone
    I would not tarry if I could be gone
    Adown the path where calls my eager mind.
    14 lines
  • November
    Old November, sere and brown,
    Clothes the country, haunts the town,
    23 lines
  • Memories
    The burnished glow of the old-gold moon
    Shines brightly over me.
    8 lines
  • Compensation
    I plucked a rose from out a bower fair,
    That overhung my garden seat;
    16 lines
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