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  • My Symphony
    To live content with small means.
    To seek elegance rather than luxury,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • From: A Poet's Hope
    Lady, there is a hope that all men have,
    Some mercy for their faults, a grassy place
    40 lines
  • Hymn Of The Earth
    My highway is unfeatured air,
    My consorts are the sleepless stars,
    28 lines
  • And Here The Hermit Sat
    And here the hermit sat, and told his beads,
    And stroked his flowing locks, red as the fire,
    24 lines
  • The Barren Moors
    ON your bare rocks, O barren moors,
    On your bare rocks I love to lie!—
    33 lines
  • Tears in Spring (Lament for Thoreau)
    THE SWALLOW is flying over,
    But he will not come to me;
    38 lines
  • Edith
    EDITH, the silent stars are coldly gleaming,
      The night wind moans, the leafless trees are still.
    28 lines
  • Flight of the Wild Geese
    Rambling along the marshes,
    On the bank of the Assabet,
    88 lines
  • The Mountain (excerpts)
    ...Once we built our fortress where you see
    Yon group of spruce-trees sidewise on the line
    69 lines
  • The Hillside Cot
    And here the hermit sat, and told his beads,
    And stroked his flowing locks, red as the fire,
    24 lines
  • Here let us live and spend away our lives
    Here let us live and spend away our lives,
    Said once Fortunio, "while below, absorbed,
    15 lines
  • The Earth-Spirit
    Then spoke the Spirit of the Earth,
        Her gentle voice like a soft water's song--
    72 lines
  • Sea Song
    Our boat to the waves go free,
    By the bending tide, where the curled wave breaks,
    15 lines
  • Memory
    I hear thy solemn anthem fall,
    O richest song, upon my ear,
    36 lines
  • Sleepy Hollow
    No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,
    No winding torches paint the midnight air;
    24 lines, 1 comment
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