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  • Life's Priestess
    All to herself a woman never sings
    A happy song. Oh no! but it is so
    5 lines
  • Love Now
    The sanctity that is about the dead
    To make us love them more than late, when here,
    13 lines
  • One and One
    The thanking heart can only silence keep;
    The breaking heart can only die alone:
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Violin
    Touch gently, friend, and slow, the violin, So sweet and low,
    That my dreaming senses may be beckoned so
    14 lines
  • The Outgoing Race
    The mothers wish for no more daughters;
    There is no future before them.
    18 lines
  • A Passing Voice
    "Turn me a rhyme," said Fate,
    "Turn me a rhyme:
    22 lines
  • Give Me Not Tears
    DESPAIR
    DEAR, when you see my grave,
    37 lines
  • Gertrude
    What shall I say, my friend, my own heart healing,
    When for my love you cannot answer me?
    13 lines
  • Morning Song
    Turn thy face to me, my love,
    I come from out the morning;
    8 lines
  • To G. P. L.
    We see the sky,--we love it day by day;
    We feel the wind of Spring, from blossoms winging;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Inlet and Shore
    Here is a world of changing glow,
    Where moods roll swiftly far and wide;
    24 lines
  • Impersonality
    I dreamed within a dream the sun was gold;
    And as I walked beneath this golden sun,
    8 lines
  • A Protean Glimpse
    Time and I pass to and fro,
    Hardly greeting as we go,--
    22 lines
  • Power against Power
    [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]
    25 lines
  • Unity In Space
    Take me away into a storm of snow
    So white and soft, I feel no deathly chill,
    12 lines
  • The Shell and The World
    The world was like a shell to me,--
    Its voice with distant song was low;
    12 lines
  • The Clock-Tower Bell
    Say not, sad bell, another hour hath come,
    Bare for the record of a world of crime;
    8 lines
  • Ours To Endure
    We speak of the world that passes away,--
    The world of men who lived years ago,
    12 lines
  • Broken Waves
    The sun is lying on the garden-wall,
    The full red rose is sweetening all the air,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Why Sad To-Day?
    Why is the nameless sorrowing look
    So often thought a whim?
    20 lines
  • The Ghosts of Revellers
    At purple eyes beside the grain,
    Our loves on altars we had burned,
    16 lines
  • Life's Burying-Ground
    My graveyard holds no once-loved human forms,
    Grown hideous and forgotten, left alone,
    8 lines
  • Beyond Utterance
    There in the midst of gloom the church-spire rose,
    And not a star lit any side of heaven;
    16 lines
  • The Suicide
    A shadowed form before the light,
    A gleaming face against the night,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • For Others
    Weeping for another's woe,
    Tears flow then that would not flow
    14 lines
  • Zest
    Labor not in the murky dell,
    But till your harvest hill at morn;
    8 lines
  • The Unperfected
    A broken mirror in a trembling hand;
    Sad, trembling lips that utter broken thought:
    12 lines
  • God-Made
    Somewhere, somewhere in this heart
    There lies a jewel from the sea,
    12 lines
  • A Song Before Grief
    Sorrow, my friend,
    When shall you come again?
    25 lines
  • Pride: Fate
    Lullaby on the wing
    Of my song, O my own!
    16 lines
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