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  • The First Food
    Mother, in some sad evening long ago,
    From thy young breast my groping lips were taken,
    29 lines
  • Youth and Time
    Once as a boy I dreamed
    Where wider waters gleamed
    25 lines
  • Ballad of the Grapes
    O Sadducees and Pharisees,
        Who harass the divine,
    93 lines
  • To Colonel John S. Engs
    Kindred to Art's creative school
        Her sons discerning are:
    4 lines
  • Yosemite
        I
    Beauty, whose face and mystery we seek,
    406 lines
  • Omnium Exeunt In Mysterium
    The stranger in my gates -- lo! that am I,
    And what my land of birth I do not know,
    13 lines
  • Compensation
    When life is fully ripened are not we
        What we remember, as our hearts enfold
    15 lines
  • Ballad of St. John of Nepomuk
    Now to you all be Christmas cheer,
        Good health and better luck!
    68 lines
  • Witch-Fire
    Said the faun to the will-o'-the-wisp:
        "You are fugitive, far!"
    18 lines
  • Ballad of the Seeker
    John o' Dreams fled North, fled North,
      Led by a certain star,
    24 lines
  • The Cloud
    Said the cloud, "I am weary of flight
        And the wind's imperious reign;
    28 lines
  • Blue Ranges
    Dim hills! (I cried.)
      Mountains of azure delicate and far,
    28 lines
  • Conspiracy
    I had a dream of some great house of stone,
        Not dark, but open to the northern ray.
    43 lines
  • Words for Lange's "Blumenlied"
    How many flowers are gently met
        Within my garden fair!
    14 lines
  • The Wine of Illusion
    I saw One dad in opalescent grey,
        Who held a crystal cup within her hands
    14 lines
  • Beyond the Breakers [To James Hopper]
    The world was full of the sound of a great wind out of the West,
    And the tracks of its feet were white on the trampled oceans brest
    66 lines
  • Blossom or Bird
    Darling, thy form and fragrance haunt the Spring,
        And every wind becomes thy messenger;
    14 lines
  • Beloved
    As music out of silence, Craig, so came
        Thy love from mystery; so, darling, now
    14 lines
  • The Abiding Presence
    Sorely our souls to each are ever near,
        Twain harps that mix one music; for to-day,
    15 lines
  • Autumn in Carmel
    Now with a sigh November comes to the brooding land.
    Yellowing now toward winter the willows of Carmel stand.
    28 lines
  • Ballad of the Fatal Word
    The boulders lie along the downs;
        The turf is hard between;
    58 lines
  • Civilization at Bay
    Can there be one whose blood from England finds
        Nurture and source, who sees her war to-day
    14 lines
  • By the Western Ocean
    Craig! Craig! my Love irradiant and divine!
        Here on the solitary sands I lie
    15 lines
  • Wings
    Impatient of the tardy axe and oar,
        Life clothes her tender flesh in toiling steel,
    14 lines
  • At the Grand Caņon
    Thou settest splendors in my sight, O Lord!
        It seems as though a deep-hued sunset falls
    15 lines
  • The Coming Singer
    The Veil before the mystery of things
        Shall stir for him with iris and with light;
    15 lines
  • Confession
    Merely to live, O Sweet, and know thee mine!
        To see the sun drip gold on yonder hill,
    14 lines
  • The Abandoned Farm
    The moon was large across the hills
        Amid whose fields I wandered lost,
    53 lines
  • Before Dawn
      Grey, desolate and blind,
    About the world the rain hath set her woe.
    18 lines
  • The Poets
    I saw from Tamalpais die morning star
        Herald the morning thro' her gates of gold
    15 lines
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