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  • A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master
    Into the woods my Master went,
    Clean forspent, forspent.
    18 lines
  • A Birthday Song. To S. G.
    For ever wave, for ever float and shine
    Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine
    44 lines
  • A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman.
    As Love will carve dear names upon a tree,
    Symbol of gravure on his heart to be,
    18 lines
  • A Florida Ghost.
    Down mildest shores of milk-white sand,
    By cape and fair Floridian bay,
    84 lines
  • A Florida Sunday
    From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas
    Oft come repenting tempests here to die;
    110 lines
  • A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L.
    O wish that's vainer than the plash
    Of these wave-whimsies on the shore:
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • A Song Of Eternity In Time
    Once, at night, in the manor wood
    My Love and I long silent stood,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • A Song Of The Future.
    Sail fast, sail fast,
    Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
    13 lines
  • A Sunrise Song.
    Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands
    Pourest thy pilgrim's tale, discoursing still
    12 lines
  • Acknowledgment.
    O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st,
    60 lines
  • An Evening Song.
    Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
    And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea,
    15 lines
  • Baby Charley
    He's fast asleep.  See how, O Wife,
    Night's finger on the lip of life
    24 lines
  • Barnacles
    My soul is sailing through the sea,
    But the Past is heavy and hindereth me.
    18 lines
  • Clover
    Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats.
    136 lines
  • Control
    O Hunger, Hunger, I will harness thee
    And make thee harrow all my spirit's glebe.
    5 lines
  • Corn
    To-day the woods are trembling through and through
    With shimmering forms, that flash before my view,
    200 lines
  • From The Flats.
    What heartache -- ne'er a hill!
    Inexorable, vapid, vague and chill
    27 lines
  • In Absence.
    The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain
    Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine apart
    60 lines
  • In The Foam.
    Life swelleth in a whitening wave,
    And dasheth thee and me apart.
    20 lines
  • Jones's Private Argyment
    That air same Jones, which lived in Jones,
      He had this pint about him:
    58 lines
  • June Dreams, In January
    "So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon
    That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills,
    116 lines, 1 comment
  • Laughter In The Senate
    In the South lies a lonesome, hungry Land;
    He huddles his rags with a cripple's hand;
    30 lines
  • Laus Mariae
    Across the brook of Time man leaping goes
    On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise
    15 lines
  • Martha Washington
    Down cold snow-stretches of our bitter time,
    When windy shams and the rain-mocking sleet
    14 lines
  • My Springs
    In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know
    Two springs that with unbroken flow
    56 lines
  • Night
    Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day.
    Each rules a half of earth with different sway,
    32 lines
  • Night And Day
    The innocent, sweet Day is dead.
    Dark Night hath slain her in her bed.
    20 lines
  • Nilsson
    A rose of perfect red, embossed
    With silver sheens of crystal frost,
    28 lines
  • Ode To The Johns Hopkins University
    How tall among her sisters, and how fair, --
    How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair
    101 lines
  • On A Palmetto
    Through all that year-scarred agony of height,
    Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands
    15 lines
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