A WIND-SWEPT tulip-bed—a colo… Of butterflies careering in the ai… A many-figured arras stirred to li… And merry unto midnight music dumb… So the dance whirls. Do any think…

An Old Man’s Confession SHE has a large still heart—this… (Not mine, i’faith! nor would I t… She walks this world of ours like… Pure with a marble pureness, movin…

METHOUGHT I saw thee yesterni… Sit by me in the olden guise, The white robes and the pain foreg… Weaving instead of amaranth crown A web of mortal dyes.

A FRIEND stands at the door; In either tight-closed hand Hiding rich gifts, three hundred a… Waiting to strew them daily o’er t… Even as seed the sower.

YEAR after year the cowslips fil… Year after year the skylarks thril… Year after year, in sunshine or in… Rolls the world round, love, and f… Year after year, as sure as birds’…

SENT IN A LITTLE BOX. LET them lie, yes, let them lie, They’ll be dead to-morrow: Lift the lid up quietly As you’d lift the mystery

THERE was a marriage-table wher… Haply, unnoticed, till they craved… Thenceforward does it seem that H… All virtuous marriage-tables conse… And so, at this, where without pom…

IT is no joy to me to sit On dreamy summer eves, When silently the timid moon Kisses the sleeping leaves, And all things through the fair hu…

O COUSIN Robert, far away Among the lands of gold, How many years since we two met?— You would not like it told. O cousin Robert, buried deep

‘O HEART, my heart!’ she said,… His mate the blackbird calling, While through the sheen of the gar… May rain was softly falling,— Aye softly, softly falling.

IT is the Christmas time: And up and down ‘twixt heaven and… In glorious grief and solemn mirth… The shining angels climb. And unto everything

WERE I a boy, with a boy’s heart… At glimpse of her passing adown th… Of a room where she had entered an… Or a page her hand had written on,… Would all be with me as it was bef…

DEEP set in distant seas it lies… The morning vapors float and fall, The noonday clouds above it rise, Then drop as white as virgin’s pal… And sometimes, when that shroud up…

O SILENT my sister, who stands… Back gazing with me on those waves… That rose, grew, and threatened, a… While we still sit watching and wa… O sister, with looks so familiar,…

REST—rest—four little letters, o… Enfolding an infinitude of bliss— Rest is upon the earth. The heavy… Hang poised in silent ether, motio… Seeking nor sun nor breeze. No re…