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  • The Miracle
    Up from the templed city of the Jews,
      The road ran straight and white
    147 lines
  • The Crow
    Hail, little herald!--Art thou then returning
    From summer lands, this wild and wind-torn day?
    37 lines
  • When April Comes!
    When April comes with softly shining eyes,
      And daffodils bound in her wind-blown hair,
    19 lines
  • Kismet
    Love came to her unsought,
      Love served her many ways,
    25 lines
  • A Song Of Summer Days
    As pearls slip off a silken string and fall into the sea,
    These rounded summer days fall back into eternity.
    7 lines
  • At The Play
    Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall
    Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall.
    29 lines
  • Christmas
    With all the little children, far and near,
    God wot! to-day we'll sing a song of cheer!
    26 lines
  • The Heart Courageous
    Who hath a heart courageous
      Will fight with right good cheer;
    18 lines
  • A Song
    Love maketh its own summer time,
      'Tis June, Love, when we are together,
    8 lines
  • The Call
    Across the dusty, foot-worn street
      Unblessed of flower or tree,
    28 lines
  • The Knight-Errant
    Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire
      To right the world's wrongs and champion truth;
    50 lines
  • A Southern Lullaby
    Little honey baby, shet yo' eyes up tight;--
      (Shadow-man is comin' from de moon!)--
    33 lines
  • The Fairy Clock
    Silver clock! O silver clock! tell to me the time o' day!
    Is there yet a little hour left for us to work and play?
    26 lines
  • Sea-Born
    Afar in the turbulent city,
      In a hive where men make gold,
    23 lines
  • The Angel
    Down the white ward with slow, unswerving tread
      He came ere break of day--
    50 lines
  • When Christmas Comes
    For thee, my small one--trinkets and new toys,
    The wine of life and all its keenest joys,
    33 lines
  • The Opal Month
    Now cometh October--a nut-brown maid,
    Who in robes of crimson and gold arrayed
    26 lines
  • Nocturne
    Infold us with thy peace, dear moon-lit night,
      And let thy silver silence wrap us round
    23 lines
  • A Song Of Love
    Love reckons not by time--its May days of delight
    Are swifter than the falling stars that pass beyond our sight.
    13 lines
  • The Unknowing
    If the bird knew how through the wintry weather
    An empty nest would swing by day and night,
    23 lines
  • The Petition
    Sweet April! from out of the hidden place
      Where you keep your green and gold,
    23 lines
  • Halloween
    Hark! Hark to the wind!  'Tis the night, they say,
    When all souls come back from the far away--
    18 lines
  • The Gleaner
    As children gather daisies down green ways
      Mid butterflies and bees,
    23 lines
  • The Rover
    Though I follow a trail to north or south,
      Though I travel east or west,
    33 lines
  • In Solitude
    He is not desolate whose ship is sailing
      Over the mystery of an unknown sea,
    18 lines
  • The Robin
    Little brown brother, up in the apple tree,
      High on its blossom-rimmed branches aswing,
    23 lines
  • A Song Of Roses
    'Tis time to sing of roses: of roses all ablow,
      To every vagrant passing breeze they dip a courtesy low,
    18 lines
  • Prarie
    Where yesterday rolled long waves of gold
      Beneath the burnished blue of the sky,
    23 lines
  • The Climber
    He stood alone on Fame's high mountain top,
      His hands at rest, his forehead bound with bay;
    33 lines
  • The Daisy
    An angel found a daisy where it lay
      On Heaven's highroad of transparent gold,
    17 lines
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