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  • The House of Clay
    THERE was a house, a house of clay,
    Wherein the inmate sat all day,
    36 lines
  • Four Years
    At the Midsummer, when the hay was down,
    Said I mournful - Though my life be in its prime,
    19 lines
  • Lettice
    I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice,
    While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown,
    23 lines
  • Plighted
    Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
    Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
    31 lines
  • Too Late "Dowglas, Dowglas, Tendir And Treu"
    Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,
    In the old likeness that I knew,
    19 lines
  • Thoughts In A Wheat-Field
    IN his wide fields walks the Master,
    In his fair fields, ripe for harvest,
    53 lines
  • Immutable
    AUTUMN to winter, winter into spring,
    Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
    54 lines
  • The Dead Czar
    LAY him beneath his snows,
    The great Norse giant who in these last days
    58 lines
  • The Wind At Night
    O SUDDEN blast, that through this silence black
    Sweeps past my windows,
    72 lines
  • A Fable
    SILENT and sunny was the way
    Where Youth and I danced on together:
    42 lines
  • Labor Is Prayer
    LABORARE est orare:
    We, black-visaged sons of toil,
    42 lines
  • A Silly Song
    "O HEART, my heart!" she said, and heard
    His mate the blackbird calling,
    22 lines
  • In Memoriam
    Obiit 1854.
    HEAVEN rest thee!
    32 lines
  • An honest Valentine
    Returned from the Dead-Letter Office
    THANK you for your kindness,
    89 lines
  • Looking Death In The face
    AY, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time.
    The Black Sea wind flaps my tent-roof, nor wakes
    100 lines
  • By The Alma River
    WILLIE, fold your little hands;
    Let it drop, that "soldier" toy:
    59 lines
  • Rothesay Bay
    FU' yellow lie the corn rigs
    Far doun the braid hillside;
    35 lines
  • Living: After A Death
    O LIVE!
    (Thus seems it we should say to our beloved,--
    53 lines
  • A Flower Of A Day
    OLD friend, that with a pale and pensile grace
    Climbest the lush hedgerows, art thou back again,
    46 lines
  • The Night Before The Mowing
    ALL shimmering in the morning shine
    And diamonded with dew,
    24 lines
  • Passion Past
    WERE I a boy, with a boy's heart-beat
    At glimpse of her passing adown the street,
    30 lines
  • October
    IT is no joy to me to sit
    On dreamy summer eves,
    31 lines
  • Moon-Struck
    IT is a moor
    Barren and treeless; lying high and bare
    102 lines
  • A Stream’s Singing
    O HOW beautiful is Morning!
    How the sunbeams strike the daisies,
    43 lines
  • A Rejected Lover
    You "never loved me," Ada. These slow words
    Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue
    30 lines
  • A Living Picture
    No, I'll not say your name. I have said it now,
    As you mine, first in childish treble, then
    53 lines
  • Leonora
    LEONORA, Leonora,
    How the word rolls--Leonora--
    75 lines
  • Life Returning
    After War-time.
    O LIFE, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching
    34 lines
  • My Friend
    MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own,
    And a musical tongue has he;
    52 lines
  • A Valentine
    YE are twa laddies unco gleg,
    An' blithe an' bonnie:
    54 lines
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