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  • Hermione
    THE LOST MAGIC
    69 lines
  • Reproof Of Love
    BECAUSE we are shut out from light,
    Each of the other's look and smile;
    13 lines
  • Tempted
    YES, I know what you say.
    Since it cannot be soul to soul,
    13 lines
  • Alone
    STILL earth turns and pulses stir,
    And each day hath its deed;
    28 lines
  • To A Maid Demure
    OFTEN when the night is come,
    With its quiet group at home,
    25 lines
  • The Coup De Grace
    IF I were very sure
    That all was over betwixt you and me—
    22 lines
  • The World Runs Round
    THE world runs round,
    And the world runs well;
    112 lines
  • One Touch Of Nature
    CRUEL and wild the battle:
    Great horses plunged and reared,
    46 lines
  • The Crickets In The Fields
    ONE, or a thousand voices?—filling noon
    With such an undersong and drowsy chant
    14 lines
  • Sunday
    NOT a dread cavern, hoar with damp and mould,
    Where I must creep, and in the dark and cold,
    10 lines
  • On Second Thought
    THE end's so near,
    It is all one
    14 lines
  • His Lost Day
    GROWING old, and looking back
    Wistfully along his track,
    41 lines
  • Fertility
    CLEAR water on smooth rock
    Could give no foot-hold for a single flower,
    17 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
  • The Lost Bird
    WHAT cared she for the free hearts? She would comfort
    The prisoned one:
    41 lines
  • Warning
    BE true to me! For there will dawn a day
    When thou wilt find the faith that now I see,
    13 lines
  • Summer Afternoon
    FAR in hollow mountain carñons
    Brood with purple-folded pinions,
    40 lines
  • Summer Night
    FROM the warm garden in the summer night
    All faintest odors came: the tuberose white
    13 lines
  • A Californian’s Dreams
    A THUNDER-STORM of the olden days!
    The red sun' sinks in a sleepy haze;
    72 lines
  • Fulfillment
    ALL the skies had gloomed in gray,
    Many a week, day after day.
    26 lines
  • The Singer
    SILLY bird!
    When his mate is near,
    31 lines
  • The Things that Will Not Die
    WHAT am I glad will stay when I have passed
    From this dear valley of the world, and stand
    54 lines
  • The Secret
    A TIDE of sun and song in beauty broke
    Against a bitter heart, where no voice woke
    51 lines
  • Lost Love
    BURY it, and sift
    Dust upon its light,—
    28 lines
  • Appreciated
    AH, could I but be understood!"
    (I prayed the powers above)
    13 lines
  • Moods
    DAWN has blossomed: the sun is nigh:
    Pearl and rose in the wimpled sky,
    13 lines
  • Space
    BLACK, frost-cold distance, sparsely honey-combed
    With hollow shells of glimmering golden light;
    4 lines
  • Untimely Thought
    I LOOKED across the lawn one summer's day;
    Deep shadowed, dreaming in the drowsy light,
    16 lines
  • The Life Natural
    OVERHEAD the leaf-song, on the upland slope;
    Over that the azure, clean from base to cope;
    18 lines
  • The Oracle
    DOWN in its crystal hollow
    Gleams the ebon well of ink:
    38 lines
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