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Edward Rowland Sill's Poetry, by first line

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  • Opportunity
    This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:--
    There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Roland
    A FOOLISH creature full of fears,
    He trembled for his fate,
    58 lines
  • Before Sunrise in Winter
    A PURPLE cloud hangs half-way down;
      Sky, yellow gold below;
    8 lines
  • A Resting-Place
    A SEA of shade; with hollow heights above,
    Where floats the redwood's airy roof away,
    26 lines
  • Sundown
    A SEA of splendor in the West,
    Purple, and pearl, and gold,
    23 lines
  • A Californian’s Dreams
    A THUNDER-STORM of the olden days!
    The red sun' sinks in a sleepy haze;
    72 lines
  • The Secret
    A TIDE of sun and song in beauty broke
    Against a bitter heart, where no voice woke
    51 lines
  • Even There
    A TROOP of babes in Summer-Land,
    At heaven's gate—the children's gate:
    18 lines
  • Appreciated
    AH, could I but be understood!"
    (I prayed the powers above)
    13 lines
  • Fulfillment
    ALL the skies had gloomed in gray,
    Many a week, day after day.
    26 lines
  • Warning
    BE true to me! For there will dawn a day
    When thou wilt find the faith that now I see,
    13 lines
  • Reproof Of Love
    BECAUSE we are shut out from light,
    Each of the other's look and smile;
    13 lines
  • Space
    BLACK, frost-cold distance, sparsely honey-combed
    With hollow shells of glimmering golden light;
    4 lines
  • Lost Love
    BURY it, and sift
    Dust upon its light,—
    28 lines
  • Fertility
    CLEAR water on smooth rock
    Could give no foot-hold for a single flower,
    17 lines
  • One Touch Of Nature
    CRUEL and wild the battle:
    Great horses plunged and reared,
    46 lines
  • Moods
    DAWN has blossomed: the sun is nigh:
    Pearl and rose in the wimpled sky,
    13 lines
  • Truth At Last
    DOES a man ever give up hope, I wonder, --
    Face the grim fact, seeing it clear as day?
    16 lines
  • The Oracle
    DOWN in its crystal hollow
    Gleams the ebon well of ink:
    38 lines
  • Summer Afternoon
    FAR in hollow mountain carñons
    Brood with purple-folded pinions,
    40 lines
  • Among The Redwoods
    FAREWELL to such a world! Too long I press
    The crowded pavement with unwilling feet.
    68 lines
  • Five Lives
    FIVE mites of monads dwelt in a round drop
    That twinkled on a leaf by a pool in the sun.
    57 lines
  • Summer Night
    FROM the warm garden in the summer night
    All faintest odors came: the tuberose white
    13 lines
  • His Lost Day
    GROWING old, and looking back
    Wistfully along his track,
    41 lines
  • A Paradox
    HASTE, haste, O laggard!—leave thy drowsy dreams;
    Cram all thy brain with knowledge—clutch and cram!
    10 lines
  • The Philosopher
    HIS wheel of logic whirled and spun all day;
    All day he held his system, grinding it
    6 lines
  • Hermione
    THE LOST MAGIC
    69 lines
  • At Dawn
    I LAY awake and listened, ere the light
    Began to whiten at the window pane.
    21 lines
  • Untimely Thought
    I LOOKED across the lawn one summer's day;
    Deep shadowed, dreaming in the drowsy light,
    16 lines
  • The Mystery
    I NEVER know why 't is I love thee so:
    I do not think 't is that thine eyes for me
    10 lines
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