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Edward Rowland Sill's Poetry, by title

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  • A Bird’s Song
    THE shadow of a bird
    On the shadow of a bough;
    12 lines
  • A Californian’s Dreams
    A THUNDER-STORM of the olden days!
    The red sun' sinks in a sleepy haze;
    72 lines
  • A Child And A Star
    THE star, so pure in saintly white,
    Deep in the solemn soul of night,
    37 lines
  • A Memory
    UPON the barren, lonely hill
    We sat to watch the sinking sun;
    35 lines
  • A Paradox
    HASTE, haste, O laggard!—leave thy drowsy dreams;
    Cram all thy brain with knowledge—clutch and cram!
    10 lines
  • A Prayer
    O GOD, our Father, if we had but truth!
      Lost truth—which thou perchance
    19 lines
  • A Resting-Place
    A SEA of shade; with hollow heights above,
    Where floats the redwood's airy roof away,
    26 lines
  • Alone
    STILL earth turns and pulses stir,
    And each day hath its deed;
    28 lines
  • Among The Redwoods
    FAREWELL to such a world! Too long I press
    The crowded pavement with unwilling feet.
    68 lines
  • Appreciated
    AH, could I but be understood!"
    (I prayed the powers above)
    13 lines
  • At Dawn
    I LAY awake and listened, ere the light
    Began to whiten at the window pane.
    21 lines
  • Before Sunrise in Winter
    A PURPLE cloud hangs half-way down;
      Sky, yellow gold below;
    8 lines
  • Even There
    A TROOP of babes in Summer-Land,
    At heaven's gate—the children's gate:
    18 lines
  • Fertility
    CLEAR water on smooth rock
    Could give no foot-hold for a single flower,
    17 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
  • Force
    THE stars know a secret
    They do not tell;
    53 lines
  • Fulfillment
    ALL the skies had gloomed in gray,
    Many a week, day after day.
    26 lines
  • Hermione
    THE LOST MAGIC
    69 lines
  • His Lost Day
    GROWING old, and looking back
    Wistfully along his track,
    41 lines
  • Living
    TO-DAY, "I thought, "I will not plan nor strive;
    Idle as yon blue sky, or clouds that go
    15 lines
  • Lost Love
    BURY it, and sift
    Dust upon its light,—
    28 lines
  • Moods
    DAWN has blossomed: the sun is nigh:
    Pearl and rose in the wimpled sky,
    13 lines
  • Night And peace
    NIGHT in the woods,—night:
    Peace, peace on the plain.
    11 lines
  • On A Picture Of Mt. Shasta By Kieth
    TWO craggy slopes, sheer down on either hand,
    Fall to a cleft, dark and confused with pines.
    67 lines
  • On Second Thought
    THE end's so near,
    It is all one
    14 lines
  • One Touch Of Nature
    CRUEL and wild the battle:
    Great horses plunged and reared,
    46 lines
  • Opportunity
    This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:--
    There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Reproof Of Love
    BECAUSE we are shut out from light,
    Each of the other's look and smile;
    13 lines
  • Roland
    A FOOLISH creature full of fears,
    He trembled for his fate,
    58 lines
  • Space
    BLACK, frost-cold distance, sparsely honey-combed
    With hollow shells of glimmering golden light;
    4 lines
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