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  • Sonnet 38: The Children of the Night
    WHEN we can all so excellently give
    The measure of love’s wisdom with a blow,—
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 36: The Children of the Night
    THE MASTER and the slave go hand in hand,
    Though touch be lost. The poet is a slave,
    14 lines
  • Requiescat
    We never knew the Sorrow or the pain
    Within him, for he seemed as one asleep
    16 lines
  • Two Octaves
    I
    Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms
    18 lines
  • The World
    Some are the brothers of all humankind,
    And own them, whatsoever their estate;
    12 lines
  • For Some Poems by Matthew Arnold
    Sweeping the chords of Hellas with firm hand,
    He wakes lost echoes from song's classic shore,
    14 lines
  • The Master
    A flying word from here and there
    Had sown the name at which we sneered,
    69 lines
  • New England
    Here where the wind is always north-north-east
    And children learn to walk on frozen toes,
    14 lines
  • Nimmo
    Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive
    At such a false and florid and far drawn
    89 lines
  • The Mill
    The miller's wife had waited long,
    The tea was cold, 
    25 lines
  • Old Trails
    I met him, as one meets a ghost or two,
    Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel
    125 lines
  • The Three Taverns
    When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.—(Acts xxviii, 15)
    350 lines
  • Theophilus
    By what serene malevolence of names
    Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus?
    24 lines
  • Old King Cole
    In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole
    A wise old age anticipate,
    89 lines
  • Partnership
    Yes, you have it; I can see.
    Beautiful?… Dear, look at me!
    53 lines
  • The Revealer
    (ROOSEVELT)
    He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion … And the men of the
    73 lines
  • The Pilot
    From the Past and Unavailing
    Out of cloudland we are steering:
    26 lines
  • The Klondike
    Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us;
    All we need now is the last way they looked at us.
    83 lines
  • The False Gods
    “We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit,
    From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet.
    34 lines
  • Rembrandt to Rembrandt
    And there you are again, now as you are.
    Observe yourself as you discern yourself
    334 lines
  • The Voice of Age
    She'd look upon us, if she could,
    As hard as Rhadamanthus would;
    35 lines
  • The Torrent
    I found a torrent falling in a glen
    Where the sun’s light shone silvered and leaf-split;
    14 lines
  • The Sage
    Foreguarded and unfevered and serene,
    Back to the perilous gates of Truth he went—
    15 lines
  • Three Quatrains
    I
    As long as Fame's imperious music rings
    15 lines
  • Vickery's Mountain
    Blue in the west the mountain stands,
    And through the long twilight
    69 lines
  • The Wise Brothers
    FIRST VOICE
    So long adrift, so fast aground,
    23 lines
  • The Tavern
    Whenever I go by there nowadays
    And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass,
    15 lines
  • Modernities
    Small knowledge have we that by knowledge met
    May not some day be quaint as any told
    15 lines
  • Shadrach O'Leary
    O’Leary was a poet—for a while:
    He sang of many ladies frail and fair,
    15 lines
  • Stafford's Cabin
    Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man;
    And something happened here before my memory began.
    34 lines
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