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  • WAITING, waiting"
    WAITING, waiting. 'Tis so far
    To the day that is to come:
    13 lines
  • Waiting
    A YOUNG fair girl among her flowers,
    And, as to blossoms born in May,
    33 lines
  • The Sky-Lark’s Song
    WINGED voice to tell the skies of earth,
    Dear earth-born lark, sing on, sing clear,
    25 lines
  • The Old Love
    You love me, only me. Do I not know?
    If I were gone your life would be no more
    30 lines
  • The Brook Rhine
    SMALL current of the wilds afar from men,
    Changing and sudden as a baby's mood;
    15 lines
  • St. Ame
    A SUNNY glade below the bridge;
    Clear shadows branching through a stream;
    57 lines
  • Yu-Pe-Ya’s Dirge For Tse-Ky
    DEAD, my beloved! This small purple weed
    That grows upon thy grave shall have its time
    19 lines
  • The Swallows
    AH! swallows, is it so?
    Did loving lingering summer, whose slow pace
    37 lines
  • The Old Dream
    NAY, tell me not. I will not know.
    Because of her my life is bare,
    31 lines
  • Mother and Daughter- Sonnet Sequence
    Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now
        The voice can reach no blending minors near;
    472 lines
  • Ni-Chan’s Dirge For Yen-Oey
    SO soon asleep! Now must the coming years
    Weep ignorantly their loss they cannot know,
    14 lines
  • The Oldest Inhabitant
    "AND when came I to this town?" did he say!
    A question asked for the asking's sake,
    210 lines
  • To-Day
    OH God, where hast thou hidden Truth? Oh Truth,
    Where is the road to God?
    57 lines
  • The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870
    "OH voice of summer winds among the trees,
    What soft news art thou bringing to us here?
    48 lines
  • Where Home Was
    'TWAS yesterday; 'twas long ago:
    And for this flaunting grimy street,
    41 lines
  • The Sea-Maid’s Song
    "OH, love me! love me!"
    The sea-maid sings ori the pebbly shore—
    22 lines
  • Poulain The Prisoner
    BEYOND his silent vault green springs went by,
        The river flashed along its open way,
    54 lines
  • Not Love
    I HAVE not yet I could have loved thee, sweet;
    Nor know I wherefore, thou being all thou art,
    28 lines
  • The Old Love
    I.
    YOU love me, only me. Do I not know?
    32 lines
  • Once a sea-nymph loved a boy
    ONCE a sea-nymph loved a boy:
        He and she they loved so well.
    21 lines
  • Siste Viator
    WHAT is it that is dead?
    Somewhere there is a grave, and something lies
    49 lines
  • The Butterfly
    VIATOR loquitur
    "Royal in purple and gold and red,
    21 lines
  • News to the king, good news for all
    "NEWS to the king, good news for all,"
        The corn is trodden, the river runs red.
    21 lines
  • Not To Be
    THE rose said "Let but this long rain be past,
    And I shall feel my sweetness in the sun
    19 lines
  • Questions And Answer
    HAD I a heart till that day?
    Who knows, who knows?
    16 lines
  • Tell thee truth, sweet; no
    TELL thee truth, sweet; no.
    Truth is cross and sad and cold:
    20 lines
  • Young May sat fainting and chill
    YOUNG May sat fainting and chill,
        And neither could live nor die;
    14 lines
  • Miles and miles of here and there
    MILES and miles of here and there
        Our eager river forced its way,
    19 lines
  • The Violet And The Rose
    The violet in the wood, that's sweet to-day,
    Is longer sweet than roses of red June;
    8 lines
  • Choosing
    The thrush that, yet alone, pipes for his mate
    Knows she will come in time to build the nest,
    14 lines
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