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Collections: Poems Of Optimism – Poems of Passion – Poems of Power – Custer, and Other Poems – Poems of Sentiment – Poems of life – Poems of Cheer – Poems of Purpose – Poems of Experience – Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels – Poems of Pleasure – Poems of Love – Maurine and Other Poems – Poems of reflection
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A Baby In The House # of Love
I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle, and heard no cry,
But the husband went tip-toeing ’round like a mouse, … Continue Reading …
A Bachelor to a Married Flirt # of Purpose
All that a man can say of woman’s charms,
Mine eyes have spoken and my lips have told
To you a thousand times. Your perfect arms … Continue Reading …
A book for the King #Poems Of Optimism
A book has been made for the King,
A book of beauty and art;
To the good king’s eyes … Continue Reading …
A Dialogue # of Progress and New Thought Pastels #Poems Of Optimism
The world is full of selfishness and greed.
Lord, I would lave its sin. … Continue Reading …
A dialogue #Poems Of Optimism
Let us be friends. My life is sad and lonely,
While yours with love is beautiful and bright.
Be kind to me: I ask your friendship only. … Continue Reading …
A Dream # Maurine and Other Poems # of Cheer
That was a curious dream; I thought the three
Great planets that are drawing near the sun
With such unerring certainty, begun … Continue Reading …
A Dream # of Reflection
The shadows of a winter night were falling,
The snows were drifting in my cottage door–
And loud the voices of the winds were calling, … Continue Reading …
A Fable # of Passion
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,
A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,
One day all meet together … Continue Reading …
A Face # of Pleasure
BETWEEN the curtains of snowy lace,
Over the way is a baby’s face;
It peeps forth, smiling in merry glee, … Continue Reading …
A Face At The Window # of Love
Once as I wandered down the street
I saw at the window a face so sweet;
The tiny face of a baby girl … Continue Reading …
A Fatal Impress # of Love
A little leaf just in the forest’s edge,
All summer long, had listened to the wooing
Of amorous birds that flew across the hedge, … Continue Reading …
A Fragment # of Reflection
Your words came just when needed. Like a breeze,
Blowing and bringing from the wide salt sea
Some cooling spray, to meadow scorched with heat … Continue Reading …
A Girl’s Faith # Maurine and Other Poems
Across the miles that stretch between,
Through days of gloom or glad sunlight,
There shines a face I have not seen … Continue Reading …
A Girl’s Faith # of Cheer
Across the miles that stretch between,
Through days of gloom or glad sunlight,
There shines a face I have not seen … Continue Reading …
A Golden Day # of Reflection
The subtle beauty of this day
Hangs o’er me like a fairy spell,
And care and grief have flown away, … Continue Reading …
A Good Sport # of Purpose
I was a little lad, and the older boys called to me from the pier:
They called to me: ‘Be a sport: be a sport! Leap in and swim!’
I leaped in and swam, though I had never been taught a stroke. … Continue Reading …
A Gray Mood # of Pleasure
AS we hurry away to the end, my friend,
Of this sad little farce called existence,
We are sure that the future will bring one thing, … Continue Reading …
A Holiday # of Purpose
War declares a holiday;
Little children, run and play.
Ring-a-rosy round the earth … Continue Reading …
A Leaf # of Cheer # Maurine and Other Poems
Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve,
That you were married, or soon to be.
I have not thought of you, I believe, … Continue Reading …
A Little Song # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Oh, a great world, a fair world, a true world I find it;
A sun that never forgets to rise,
On the darkest night, a star in the skies, … Continue Reading …
A Maiden To Her Mirror # Custer, and Other Poems
He said he loved me! Then he called my hair
Silk threads wherewith sly Cupid strings his bow,
My cheek a rose leaf fallen on new snow; … Continue Reading …
A Maiden’s Secret # of Love
I have written this day down in my heart
As the sweetest day in the season;
From all of the others I’ve set it apart– … Continue Reading …
A Man’s Ideal # of Power
A lovely little keeper of the home,
Absorbed in menu books, yet erudite
When I need counsel; quick at repartee … Continue Reading …
A March Snow # of life # Maurine and Other Poems
Let the old snow be covered with the new:
The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
Let it be hidden wholly from our view … Continue Reading …
A Marine Etching # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
A yacht from its harbour ropes pulled free,
And leaped like a steed o’er the race-track blue, … Continue Reading …
A Meeting # of Passion
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;
A song I sang, full many a year ago,
Smiled up at me, as in a busy street … Continue Reading …
A Minor Chord # of Sentiment
I heard a strain of music in the street—
A wandering waif of sound. And then straightway
A nameless desolation filled the day. … Continue Reading …
A Moorish Maid # of Experience
Above her veil a shrouded Moorish maid
Showed melting eyes, as limpid as a lake;
A brow untouched by care; a band of jetty hair, … Continue Reading …
A Mother’s Wail # of Love
The sweet young spring walks over the earth,
It flushes and glows on moor and lea;
The birds are singing in careless mirth– … Continue Reading …
A naughty little comet #Poems Of Optimism
There was once a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!
She loved to wander out at night and jump about and play.
The mother of the comet was a very good old star— … Continue Reading …
A New Year’s Greeting to the City of the Lakes # of Reflection
I said “I will write a greeting,
To the City of the Lakes,
Write, while the city sleepeth, … Continue Reading …
A Picture # of Passion
I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
One solitary picture struck my eye:
A distant ploughboy stood against the sky— … Continue Reading …
A Pin # of Pleasure
OH, I know a certain lady who is reckoned with the good,
Yet she fills me with more terror than a raging lion would.
The little chills run up and down my spine whene’er we meet, … Continue Reading …
A Plea # of Pleasure
COLUMBIA, large-hearted and tender,
Too long for the good of your kin
You have shared your home’s comfort and splendor … Continue Reading …
A Plea For Fame # of Love
Let those slander fame who will–
Call her cheat and blame her ways.
It may all be true; and still … Continue Reading …
A Plea To Peace # of Power
When mighty issues loom before us, all
The petty great men of the day seem small,
Like pigmies standing in a blaze of light … Continue Reading …
A Prayer # of Experience
Just as I shape the purport of my thought,
Lord of the Universe, shape Thou my lot.
Let each ill thought that in my heart may be, … Continue Reading …
A Prayer # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Master of sweet and loving lore,
Give us the open mind
To know religion means no more, … Continue Reading …
A Reminiscence # of Cheer # Maurine and Other Poems
I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose
A wee one, that grows
Down low on the bush, where her sisters above … Continue Reading …
A Sailor’s Wife # of Pleasure
SUN in my lattice, and sun on the sea
(Oh, but the sun is fair),
And a sky of blue and a sea of green, … Continue Reading …
A Sculptor # of Passion
As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, lifts
Chisel and hammer to the block at hand,
Before my half-formed character I stand … Continue Reading …
A Solar Eclipse # of Sentiment
In that great journey of the stars through space
About the mighty, all-directing Sun,
The pallid, faithful Moon has been the one … Continue Reading …
A Son Speaks # of Purpose
Mother, sit down, for I have much to say
Anent this widespread ever-growing theme
Of woman and her virtues and her rights. … Continue Reading …
A Song # of life # Maurine and Other Poems
IS anyone sad in the world, I wonder?
Does anyone weep on a day like this
With the sun above, and the green earth under? … Continue Reading …
A Song Of Life # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In the rapture of life and of living,
I lift up my heart and rejoice,
And I thank the great Giver for giving … Continue Reading …
A Song of Republics # of Sentiment
Fair Freedom’s ship, too long adrift—
Of every wind the sport—
Now rigged and manned, her course well planned, … Continue Reading …
A successful man #Poems Of Optimism
There was a man who killed a loving maid
In some mad mood of passion; and he paid
The price, upon a scaffold. Now his name … Continue Reading …
A Suggestion # of Sentiment
Let the wild red-rose bloom. Though not to thee
So delicately perfect as the white
And unwed lily drooping in the light, … Continue Reading …
A Tribute # of Reflection
My heart that otherwise was glad
(So much God gives to make it so)
This golden afternoon is sad … Continue Reading …
A Tribute to Vinnie Ream # of Reflection
All hail to Vinnie Ream!
Wisconsin’s artist daughter,
Who stands to-day crowned with the fame … Continue Reading …
A Twilight Thought # of Reflection
The sweet maid, Day, has pillowed her head
On the breast of her dusky lover. Night.
The sun has made her a couch of red, … Continue Reading …
A vagabond mind #Poems Of Optimism
Since early this morning the world has seemed surging
With unworded rhythm, and rhyme without thought.
It may be the Muses take this way of urging … Continue Reading …
A vision #Poems Of Optimism
My soul beheld a vision of the Master:
Methought He stood with grieved and questioning eyes,
Where Freedom drove its chariot to disaster … Continue Reading …
A Waif # of Love
My soul is like a poor caged bird to-night,
Beating its wings against the prison bars,
Longing to reach the outer world of light, … Continue Reading …
A Waltz-Quadrille # of Passion
The band was playing a waltz-quadrille,
I felt as light as a wind-blown feather,
As we floated away, at the caller’s will, … Continue Reading …
A Warning # of Sentiment
There was a flame, oh! such a tiny flame—
One fleeting hour had spanned its birth and death,
But for a silly child with playful breath … Continue Reading …
A wish #Poems Of Optimism
Great dignity ever attends great grief,
And silently walks beside it;
And I always know when I see such woe … Continue Reading …
A Woman’s Answer # of Power
You call me an angel of love and of light,
A being of goodness and heavenly fire,
Sent out from God’s kingdom to guide you aright, … Continue Reading …
A Woman’s Love # of Sentiment
So vast the tide of love within me surging,
It overflows like some stupendous sea,
The confines of the Present and To-be; … Continue Reading …
Absence # of Pleasure
AFTER you went away, our lovely room
Seemed like a casket whence the soul had fled.
I stood in awful and appalling gloom, … Continue Reading …
Achievement # of Pleasure
TRUST in thine own untried capacity
As thou wouldst trust in God Himself. Thy soul
Is but an emanation from the whole. … Continue Reading …
Acquaintance # of Experience
Not we who daily walk the city’s street
Not those who have been cradled in its heart,
Best understand its architectural art … Continue Reading …
Action # of Sentiment
For ever stars are winging
Their swift and endless race;
For ever suns are swinging … Continue Reading …
Ad Finem # of Passion
On the white throat of the’ useless passion
That scorched my soul with its burning breath
I clutched my fingers in murderous fashion, … Continue Reading …
Advice # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
I must do as you do? Your way I own
Is a very good way. And still,
There are sometimes two straight roads to a town, … Continue Reading …
Æsthetic # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In a garb that was guiltless of colours
She stood, with a dull, listless air—
A creature of dumps and of dolours, … Continue Reading …
Affirm # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Body and mind, and spirit, all combine
To make the Creature, human and divine. … Continue Reading …
After #Poems Of Optimism
Over the din of battle,
Over the cannons’ rattle,
Over the strident voices of men and their dying groans, … Continue Reading …
After the Battles are over # of Cheer, Maurine and Other Poems
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside … Continue Reading …
All for me # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
The world grows green on a thousand hills—
By a thousand willows the bees are humming,
And a million birds by a million rills, … Continue Reading …
All mad # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
“He is mad as a hare, poor fellow,
And should be in chains,” you say.
I haven’t a doubt of your statement, … Continue Reading …
All Roads that Lead to God are Good # Maurine and Other Poems
All roads that lead to God are good.
What matters it, your faith, or mine?
Both centre at the goal divine … Continue Reading …
All That Love Asks # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
“All that I ask,” says Love, “is just to stand
And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;
For in their depths lies largest Paradise. … Continue Reading …
All the World # of Reflection
All the world is full of babies,
Sobbing, sighing everywhere,
Looking out with eyes of terror, … Continue Reading …
Ambition’s Trail # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
If all the end of this continuous striving
Were simply to attain,
How poor would seem the planning and contriving, … Continue Reading …
America # of Purpose
I am the refuge of all the oppressed,
I am the boast of the free,
I am the harbour where ships may rest … Continue Reading …
An Afternoon # of Cheer
I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon
Of a perfect day—though it was not June;
The lilt of winds, and the droning tune … Continue Reading …
An Answer # of Passion
If all the year was summer time,
And all the aim of life
Was just to lilt on like a rhyme, … Continue Reading …
An Army Reunion # of Love
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside … Continue Reading …
An Episode # of Experience
Along the narrow Moorish street
A blue-eyed soldier strode.
(Ah, well-a-day) … Continue Reading …
An Erring Woman’s Love # of Sentiment
She was a light and wanton maid:
Not one whom fickle Love betrayed,
For indolence was her undoer. … Continue Reading …
An Inspiration # of Power
However the battle is ended,
Though proudly the victor comes
With fluttering flags and prancing nags … Continue Reading …
An Ode to Time # of Sentiment
Ho! sportsman Time, whose chargers fleet
The moments, madly driven,
Beat in the dust beneath their feet … Continue Reading …
An Old Comrade # of Pleasure
ALL suddenly between me and the light,
That brightly shone, and warm,
Robed in the pall-like garments of the night, … Continue Reading …
An Old Fan # of Pleasure
IT is soiled and quite passe,
Broken too, and out of fashion,
But it stirs my heart some way, … Continue Reading …
An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride # Custer, and Other Poems
As when the old moon lighted by the tender
And radiant crescent of the new is seen,
And for a moment’s space suggests the splendor … Continue Reading …
An old song #Poems Of Optimism
A shabby old man with a music machine on the sordid city street;
But suddenly earth seemed Arcady, and life grew young and sweet. … Continue Reading …
An old-fashioned type #Poems Of Optimism
For ‘Mabel Brown’ I never cared
(My rightful name by birth),
But when the name of Smith I shared, … Continue Reading …
And They Are Dumb # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
I have been across the bridges of the years.
Wet with tears
Were the ties on which I trod, going back … Continue Reading …
Angel Or Demon # of Pleasure
YOU call me an angel of love and of light,
A being of goodness and heavenly fire,
Sent out from God’s kingdom to guide you aright, … Continue Reading …
Answer # of Purpose
O well have we done the old tasks! in the old, old ways of earth.
We have kept the house in order, we have given the children birth; … Continue Reading …
Answered # of Passion
Good-bye—yes, I am going.
Sudden? Well, you are right;
But a startling truth came home to me … Continue Reading …
Answered Prayers # of Pleasure
I PRAYED for riches, and achieved success;
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares were greater and my peace was less, … Continue Reading …
Applause # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
I hold it one of the sad certain laws
Which makes our failures sometime seem more kind
Than that success which brings sure loss behind– … Continue Reading …
Appreciation # of Experience
They prize not most the opulence of June
Who from the year’s beginning to its close
Dwell, where unfading verdure tireless grows, … Continue Reading …
Aquileia # of Cheer
“The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes,”
Chrispinus cried, “or death attends our hopes.”
Then panic reigned, and many a mournful sound … Continue Reading …
Arrow and bow #Poems Of Optimism
It is easy to stand in the pulpit, or in the closet to kneel,
And say: ‘God do this; God do that!—
Make the world better; relieve the sorrows of man; for the sake of Thy Son, … Continue Reading …
Art And Heart # of Passion
Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,
It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. … Continue Reading …
Art And Love # of Love
For many long uninterrupted years
She was the friend and confidant of Art;
They walked together, heart communed with heart … Continue Reading …
Art thou Alive? # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Art thou alive? Nay, not too soon reply,
Tho’ hand, and foot, and lip, and ear, and eye,
Respond, and do thy bidding yet may be … Continue Reading …
Art versus Cupid # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Now have I fully fixed upon my part.
Good-bye to dreams; for me a life of art!
Beloved art! Oh, realm serene and fair, … Continue Reading …
Artist And Man # of Pleasure
TAKE thy life better than thy work. Too oft
Our artists spend their skill in rounding soft
Fair curves upon their statues, while the rough … Continue Reading …
Artist’s Life # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Of all the waltzes the great Strauss wrote,
Mad with melody, rhythm–rife
From the very first to the final note. … Continue Reading …
As By Fire # of Passion
Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearning
For spiritual perfection here below,
This vigorous frame, with healthful fervor burning, … Continue Reading …
As you go through Life # of Cheer
Don’t look for the flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them,
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, … Continue Reading …
Assertion # of Power
I am serenity. Though passions beat
Like mighty billows on my helpless heart,
I know beyond them lies the perfect sweet … Continue Reading …
Assistance # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Lean on no mortal, Love, and serve;
(For service is love’s complement)
But it was never God’s intent, … Continue Reading …
Astrolabius # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I wrenched from a passing comet in its flight,
By that great force of two mad hearts aflame,
A soul incarnate, back to earth you came, … Continue Reading …
At An Old Drawer # of Pleasure, # of Reflection
BEFORE this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew!
How gaily it paraded … Continue Reading …
At Bay # of Experience
Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast.
Tell me there are no memories of your past
That mar this love of ours, so great, so vast. … Continue Reading …
At Eleusis # of Passion
I, at Eleusis, saw the finest sight,
When early morning’s banners were unfurled.
From high Olympus, gazing on the world, … Continue Reading …
At Fontainebleau # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
At Fontainebleau, I saw a little bed
Fashioned of polished wood, with gold ornate,
Ambition, hope, and sorrow, ay, and hate … Continue Reading …
At The Window # of Love
Every morning, as I walk down
From my dreary lodgings, toward the town,
I see at the window near the street, … Continue Reading …
Attainment # of Experience
There is no summit you may not attain,
No purpose which you may not yet achieve,
If you will wait serenely and believe. … Continue Reading …
Attainment # of Power
Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss
The purpose of this life, and do not wait
For circumstance to mould or change your fate; … Continue Reading …
Attraction # of Passion
The meadow and the mountain with desire
Gazed on each other, till a fierce unrest
Surged ‘neath the meadow’s seemingly calm breast, … Continue Reading …
Awakened! # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Slowly the People waken; they have been,
Like weary soldiers, sleeping in their tents,
While traitors tiptoed through the silent camp … Continue Reading …
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Babyland # of Pleasure
HAVE you heard of the Valley of Babyland,
The realm where the dear little darlings stay,
Till the kind storks go, as all men know, … Continue Reading …
Battle Hymn of the Women # of Experience
They are waking, they are waking,
In the east, and in the west;
They are throwing wide their windows to the sun; … Continue Reading …
Be not attached # of Experience
‘Be not attached.’ So runs the great command
For those who seek to ‘know’ and ‘understand.’
Who sounds the waters of the deeper sea … Continue Reading …
Be not Content # of Sentiment
Be not content—contentment means inaction;
The growing soul aches on its upward quest;
Satiety is twin to satisfaction; … Continue Reading …
Be Not Weary # of Love
Sometimes, when I am toil-worn and aweary,
All tired out, with working long, and well,
And earth is dark, and skies above are dreary, … Continue Reading …
Beauty #Poems Of Optimism
The search for beauty is the search for God
Who is All Beauty. He who seeks shall find.
And all along the paths my feet have trod, … Continue Reading …
Beauty making #Poems Of Optimism
Methinks there is no greater work in life
Than making beauty. Can the mind conceive
One little corner in celestial realms … Continue Reading …
Begin The Day # of Power
Begin each morning with a talk to God,
And ask for your divine inheritance
Of usefulness, contentment, and success. … Continue Reading …
Behold the earth #Poems Of Optimism
Behold the earth swung in among the stars
Fit home for gods if men were only kind—
Do thou thy part to shape it to those ends, … Continue Reading …
Belgium #Poems Of Optimism
Ruined? destroyed? Ah, no; though blood in rivers ran
Down all her ancient streets; though treasures manifold
Love-wrought, Time-mellowed, and beyond the price of gold … Continue Reading …
Belief # of Pleasure
THE pain we have to suffer seems so broad,
Set side by side with this life’s narrow span,
We need no greater evidence that God … Continue Reading …
Beppo # of Passion
Why art thou sad, my Beppo? But last eve,
Here at my feet, thy dear head on my breast,
I heard thee say thy heart would no more grieve … Continue Reading …
Beyond # of Passion
It seemeth such a little way to me
Across to that strange country—the Beyond;
And yet, not strange, for it has grown to be … Continue Reading …
Bird of Hope # of Reflection
Oh Bird of Hope! Soar not too high
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace … Continue Reading …
Bird of Hope # of Reflection
Soar not too high, oh bird of Hope!
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace … Continue Reading …
Blase # of Pleasure
THE world has outlived all its passion,
Its men are inane and blase,
Its women mere puppets of fashion; … Continue Reading …
Bleak Weather # of Passion
Dear Love, where the red lilies blossomed and grew
The white snows are falling;
And all through the woods where I wandered with you … Continue Reading …
Blind # of Sentiment
Whatever a man may think or feel
He can tell to the world and it hears aright;
But it bids the woman conceal, conceal, … Continue Reading …
Bohemia # of Reflection
Bohemia, o’er thy unatlassed borders
How many cross, with half-reluctant feet,
And unformed fears of dangers and disorders, … Continue Reading …
Book First # Custer, and Other Poems
All valor died not on the plains of Troy.
Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy
To sing of deeds as dauntless and as brave … Continue Reading …
Book Second # Custer, and Other Poems
Oh, for the power to call to aid, of mine
Own humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.
Then might she fitly sing, and only then, … Continue Reading …
Book Third # Custer, and Other Poems
As in the long dead days marauding hosts
Of Indians came from far Siberian coasts,
And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their grounds, … Continue Reading …
Bound and free # of Cheer
Come to me, Love! Come on the wings of the wind!
Fly as the ring-dove would fly to his mate!
Leave all your cares and your sorrows behind! … Continue Reading …
Burdened # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear God! there is no sadder fate in life
Than to be burdened so that you can not
Sit down contented with the common lot … Continue Reading …
But One # of Passion
The year has but one June, dear friend;
The year has but one June;
And when that perfect month doth end, … Continue Reading …
By-and-bye # of Cheer
“By-and-bye,” the maiden sighed—“by-and-bye
He will claim me for his bride,
Hope is strong and time is fleet; … Continue Reading …
By And By # Maurine and Other Poems
“By and by,” the maiden sighed—”by and by
He will claim me for his bride,
Hope is strong and time is fleet; … Continue Reading …
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Carlos # Maurine and Other Poems
Last night I knelt low at my lady’s feet.
One soft, caressing hand played with my hair,
And one I kissed and fondled. Kneeling there, … Continue Reading …
Certitude # of Purpose
There was a time when I was confident
That God’s stupendous mystery of birth
Was mine to know. The wonder of it lent … Continue Reading …
Change # of Passion
Changed? Yes, I will confess it—I have changed.
I do not love in the old fond way.
I am your friend still—time has not estranged … Continue Reading …
Christ Crucified # of Experience
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way
To do the will of Christ, our Lord and Master, day by day;
And with this prayer upon my lips, I knew not that I dreamed, … Continue Reading …
Christmas Fancies # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places … Continue Reading …
Climbing # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.
The winding road slants downward many a time;
Yet each descent is higher than the last. … Continue Reading …
Communism # of Passion
When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway,
It is then that I vow we must part forever, … Continue Reading …
Compassion # of Purpose
He was a failure, and one day he died.
Across the border of the mapless land
He found himself among a sad-eyed band … Continue Reading …
Completion # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When I shall meet God’s generous dispensers
Of all the riches in the heavenly store,
Those lesser gods, who act as Recompensers … Continue Reading …
Comrades # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
I and my Soul are alone to-day,
All in the shining weather;
We were sick of the world, and put it away, … Continue Reading …
Concentration # of Sentiment
The age is too diffusive. Time and Force
Are frittered out and bring no satisfaction.
The way seems lost to straight determined action. … Continue Reading …
Conquest # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Talk not of strength, until your heart has known
And fought with weakness through long hours alone. … Continue Reading …
Consciousness # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
God, what a glory, is this consciousness,
Of life on life, that comes to those who seek!
Nor would I, if I might, to others speak, … Continue Reading …
Constancy # of Pleasure
I WILL be true. Mad stars forsake their courses,
And led by reckless meteors, turn away
From paths appointed by Eternal Forces; … Continue Reading …
Contentment # of Reflection
If any line that I ever penned,
Or any word I have spoken,
Has comforted heart, of foe or friend– … Continue Reading …
Contrasts # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
I see the tall church steeples—
They reach so far, so far;
But the eyes of my heart see the world’s great mart … Continue Reading …
Conversion # of life
When this world’s pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart’s plummet sounded depths of pain,
I called on Reason to control my brain, … Continue Reading …
Conversion # of Love
When this world’s pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart’s plummet sounded depths of pain,
I called on Reason to control my brain, … Continue Reading …
Conversion # of Passion
I have lived this life as the skeptic lives it;
I have said the sweetness was less than the gall;
Praising, nor cursing, the Hand that gives it, … Continue Reading …
Couleur de Rose # of Sentiment
I want more lives in which to love
This world so full of beauty,
I want more days to use the ways … Continue Reading …
Courage # of Passion
There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,
Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known, … Continue Reading …
Creation # of Passion
The impulse of all love is to create.
God was so full of love, in his embrace
He clasped the empty nothingness of space, … Continue Reading …
Credulity # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
If fallacies come knocking at my door,
I’d rather feed, and shelter full a score,
Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt, … Continue Reading …
Custer # Custer, and Other Poems
– Book First # Custer, and Other Poems
All valor died not on the plains of Troy.
Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy
To sing of deeds as dauntless and as brave … Continue Reading …
– Book Second # Custer, and Other Poems
Oh, for the power to call to aid, of mine
Own humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.
Then might she fitly sing, and only then, … Continue Reading …
– Book Third # Custer, and Other Poems
As in the long dead days marauding hosts
Of Indians came from far Siberian coasts,
And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their grounds, … Continue Reading …
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Daft # of Reflection
In the warm yellow smile of the morning,
She stands at the lattice pane,
And watches the strong young binders … Continue Reading …
Dawn # of Pleasure
DAY’S sweetest moments are at dawn;
Refreshed by his long sleep, the Light
Kisses the languid lips of Night, … Continue Reading …
Death Has Crowned Him A Martyr # of Power
In the midst of sunny waters, lo! the mighty Ship of State
Staggers, bruised and torn and wounded by a derelict of fate,
One that drifted from its moorings in the anchorage of hate. … Continue Reading …
Death’s Protest # of Sentiment
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man?
Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling
To my false rival, Life? I do but bring … Continue Reading …
Deathless # of Pleasure
THERE lies in the center of each man’s heart,
A longing and love for the good and pure;
And if but an atom, or larger part, … Continue Reading …
December # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Upon December’s windy portico
The Old Year stood, and looked out where the sun
Went wading down the West, through drifting clouds. … Continue Reading …
Delilah # of Passion
In the midnight of darkness and terror,
When I would grope nearer to God,
With my back to a record of error … Continue Reading …
Denied # of Love
The winds came out of the west one day,
And hurried the clouds before them;
And drove the shadows and mists away, … Continue Reading …
Desire # of Pleasure
NO joy for which thy hungering heart has panted,
No hope it cherishes through waiting years,
But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted … Continue Reading …
Desolation # of Passion
I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain
Of love unrequited, or cold death’s woe,
Is sweet compared to that hour when we know … Continue Reading …
Diamonds # of Sentiment
The tears of fallen women turned to ice
By man’s cold pity for repentant vice.
Disarmament # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
We have outgrown the helmet and cuirass,
The spear, the arrow, and the javelin.
These crude inventions of a cruder age, … Continue Reading …
Distrust # of Pleasure
DISTRUST that man who tells you to distrust:
He takes the measure of his own small soul,
And thinks the world no larger. He who prates … Continue Reading …
Divorced # of Purpose
Thinking of one thing all day long, at night
I fall asleep, brain weary and heart sore;
But only for a little while. At three, … Continue Reading …
Does It Pay? # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
If one poor burdened toiler o’er life’s road,
Who meets us by the way,
Goes on less conscious of his galling load, … Continue Reading …
Double Carnations # of Sentiment
A wild Pink nestled in a garden bed,
A rich Carnation flourished high above her,
One day he chanced to see her pretty head … Continue Reading …
Dream-Time # of Reflection
Throughout these mellow autumn days,
All sweet and dim, and soft with haze,
I argue with my unwise heart, … Continue Reading …
Dreams # Maurine and Other Poems
Thank God for dreams! I, desolate and lone,
In the dark curtained night, did seem to be
The centre where all golden sun rays shone, … Continue Reading …
Drouth # of Passion
Why do we pity those who weep? The pain
That finds a ready outlet in the flow
Of salt and bitter tears is blessed woe, … Continue Reading …
Dual # of Sentiment
You say that your nature is double; that life
Seems more and more intricate, complex, and dual,
Because in your bosom there wages the strife … Continue Reading …
Dust-Sealed # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
I know not wherefore, but mine eyes
See bloom, where other eyes see blight.
They find a rainbow, a sunrise, … Continue Reading …
Dust Sealed # Maurine and Other Poems
Duty’s Path # of Sentiment
Out from the harbour of youth’s bay
There leads the path of pleasure;
With eager steps we walk that way … Continue Reading …
Dying # of Reflection
Let me lie upon your breast,
Lift me up, and let me twine
‘Round your neck my arms, and rest … Continue Reading …
Dying # of Reflection
The great high arch of heaven, like tapestry
On ancient walls, was grandly colored–save
The quiet, cloudless west, that was a sea … Continue Reading …
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Earnestness # of Passion
The hurry of the times affects us so
In this swift rushing hour, we crowd and press
And thrust each other backward as we go, … Continue Reading …
Earth bound #Poems Of Optimism
New paradise, and groom and bride;
The world was all their own;
Her heart swelled full of love and pride; … Continue Reading …
Earthly Pride # Custer, and Other Poems
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified, … Continue Reading …
Easter Morn # of Sentiment
A truth that has long lain buried
At Superstition’s door,
I see, in the dawn uprising … Continue Reading …
Effect # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
An unkind tale was whispered in his ear.
He paused to hear.
His thoughts were food that helped a falsehood thrive, … Continue Reading …
England, Awake! # of Experience
A beautiful great lady, past her prime,
Behold her dreaming in her easy chair;
Gray robed, and veiled; in laces old and rare, … Continue Reading …
Entre-Acte Reveries # of Pleasure
BETWEEN the acts while the orchestra played
That sweet old waltz with the lilting measure,
I drifted away to a dear dead day, … Continue Reading …
Europe #Poems Of Optimism
Little lads and grandsires,
Women old with care;
But all the men are dying men … Continue Reading …
Existence # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
You are here, and you are wanted,
Though a waif upon life’s stair;
Though the sunlit hours are haunted … Continue Reading …
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Fading # of Reflection
All in the beautiful Autumn weather
One thought lingers with me and stays;
Death and winter are coming together, … Continue Reading …
Fading # of Reflection
She sits beside the window. All who pass
Turn once again to gaze on her sweet face.
She is so fair; but soon, too soon, alas, … Continue Reading …
Faith # of Pleasure
I WILL not doubt, though all my ships at sea
Come drifting home with broken masts and sails;
I shall believe the Hand which never fails, … Continue Reading …
Faith #Poems Of Optimism
Let a valiant Faith cross swords with Death,
And Death is certain to fall;
For the dead arise with joy in their eyes— … Continue Reading …
Fate And I # of Power
Wise men tell me thou, O Fate,
Art invincible and great. … Continue Reading …
Father # of Experience
He never made a fortune, or a noise
In the world where men are seeking after fame;
But he had a healthy brood of girls and boys … Continue Reading …
Father and Son # of Purpose
My grand-dame, vigorous at eighty-one,
Delights in talking of her only son,
My gallant father, long since dead and gone. … Continue Reading …
Fear # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Fear is the twin of Faith’s sworn foe, Distrust.
If one breaks in your heart the other must. … Continue Reading …
Fiction and Fact # of Experience
In books I read, how men have lived and died,
With hopeless love deep in their bosoms hidden.
While she for whom they long in secret sighed, … Continue Reading …
Finis # of life, # of Love
An idle rhyme of the summer time,
Sweet, and solemn, and tender;
Fair with the haze of the moon’s pale rays, … Continue Reading …
Fishing # of Pleasure
MAYBE this is fun, sitting in the sun,
With a book and parasol, as my Angler wishes,
While he dips his line in the ocean brine, … Continue Reading …
Five Kisses # of Cheer
Love breathed a secret to her listening heart,
And said “Be silent.” Though she guarded it,
And dwelt as one within a world apart, … Continue Reading …
Fleeing away # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar,
Higher and higher on soul-lent wings;
But ever and often, and more and more … Continue Reading …
Floods # of Passion
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleep
I wake to hear outside my window-pane
The uncurbed fury of the wild spring rain, … Continue Reading …
Flowers For The Brave # of Love
Gather them out of the valley–
Bring them from moorland and hill,
And cast them in wreaths and in garlands. … Continue Reading …
Foes # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear
As valued friends. He cannot know
The zest of life who runneth here … Continue Reading …
For Him Who Shall Best Understand It # of Reflection
I know a “righteous Christian,”
(That is, he thinks he’s one,)
He goes to church on Sunday … Continue Reading …
Friday # Maurine and Other Poems
From feasts abstain; be temperate, and pray;
Fast if thou wilt; and yet, throughout the day, … Continue Reading …
Friendship # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving
Thy strong regard for me,
Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; … Continue Reading …
Friendship After Love # of Passion
After the fierce midsummer all ablaze
Has burned itself to ashes, and expires
In the intensity of its own fires, … Continue Reading …
From The Grave # of Passion
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,
I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,
Out of the grave of a dead Past calling, … Continue Reading …
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Gethsemane # of Power, # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
In golden youth when seems the earth
A Summer-land of singing mirth,
When souls are glad and hearts are light, … Continue Reading …
Ghosts # of Cheer, # of Reflection, # Maurine and Other Poems
There are ghosts in the room.
As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there
They come out of the gloom, … Continue Reading …
Give # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,
Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.
And from a thousand sources, far and near, … Continue Reading …
God’s Answer # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Once in a time of trouble and of care
I dreamed I talked with God about my pain;
With sleepland courage, daring to complain … Continue Reading …
God’s Kin # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
There is no summit you may not attain,
No purpose which you may not yet achieve,
If you will wait serenely and believe … Continue Reading …
God’s Measure # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
God measures souls by their capacity
For entertaining his best Angel, Love.
Who loveth most is nearest kin to God, … Continue Reading …
Going Away # of Love
Walking to-day on the Common,
I heard a stranger say
To a friend who was standing near him, … Continue Reading …
Gracia # of Passion
Nay, nay, Antonio! nay, thou shalt not blame her,
My Gracia, who hath so deserted me.
Thou art my friend, but if thou dost defame her … Continue Reading …
Greater Britain #Poems Of Optimism
Our hearts were not set on fighting,
We did not pant for the fray,
And whatever wrongs need righting, … Continue Reading …
Grief # of Power
As the funeral train with its honoured dead
On its mournful way went sweeping,
While a sorrowful nation bowed its head … Continue Reading …
Growing Old # of Love
Little by little the year grows old,
The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;
The sun grows dim, and the winds blow cold, … Continue Reading …
Guerdon # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year
I saw a tear.
Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow … Continue Reading …
Guilo # of Passion
Yes, yes! I love thee, Guilo; thee alone.
Why dost thou sigh, and wear that face of sorrow?
The sunshine is to-day’s, although it shone … Continue Reading …
Gypsying # of Purpose
Gypsying, gypsying, through the world together,
Never mind the way we go, never mind what port.
Follow trails, or fashion sails, start in any weather: … Continue Reading …
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Half Fledged # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
I feel the stirrings in me of great things.
New half-fledged thoughts rise up and beat their wings,
And tremble on the margin of their nest, … Continue Reading …
Happiness # of Purpose
There are so many little things that make life beautiful.
I can recall a day in early youth when I was longing for happiness. … Continue Reading …
Has Been # of Sentiment
That melancholy phrase “It might have been,”
However sad, doth in its heart enfold
A hidden germ of promise! for I hold … Continue Reading …
He that Looketh # of Sentiment
Yea, she and I have broken God’s command,
And in His sight are branded with our shame.
And yet I do not even know her name, … Continue Reading …
Heaven and Hell # of Sentiment
While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face,
Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand
And taught my doubting heart to understand … Continue Reading …
Helen of Troy # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
The world an abject vassal to her charms,
And kings competing for a single smile,
Yet love she knew not, till upon this isle … Continue Reading …
Helena # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Last night I saw Helena. She whose praise
Of late all men have sounded. She for whom
Young Angus rashly sought a silent tomb … Continue Reading …
Her Love # of Power
The sands upon the ocean side
That change about with every tide,
And never true to one abide, … Continue Reading …
Her Reverie # of Pleasure
WE were both of us—aye, we were both of us there,
In the self-same house at the play together,
To her it was summer, with bees in the air— … Continue Reading …
Here And Now # Custer, and Other Poems
Here, in the heart of the world,
Here, in the noise and the din,
Here, where our spirits were hurled … Continue Reading …
Here And Now # of Power
Here, in the heart of the world,
Here, in the noise and the din,
Here, where our spirits were hurled … Continue Reading …
Hidden Gems # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
We know not what lies in us, till we seek;
Men dive for pearls—they are not found on shore,
The hillsides most unpromising and bleak … Continue Reading …
High Noon # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Time’s finger on the dial of my life
Points to high noon! and yet the half-spent day
Leaves less than half remaining, for the dark, … Continue Reading …
His last letter #Poems Of Optimism
Well, you are free;
The longed for, lied for, waited for decree
Is yours to-day. … Continue Reading …
His Mansion # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
There was a thought he hid from all men’s eyes,
And by his prudent life and deeds of worth
He left a goodly record upon earth … Continue Reading …
Holiday Songs # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Sailing away on a summer sea,
Out of the bleak March weather;
Drifting away for a loaf and play, … Continue Reading …
Home #Poems Of Optimism
The greatest words are always solitaires,
Set singly in one syllable; like birth,
Life, love, hope, peace. I sing the worth … Continue Reading …
Honeymoon Scene # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
What were thy thoughts, sweet Esther? Something passed
Across thy face, that for a moment veiled
Thy soul from mine, and left me desolate. … Continue Reading …
How the White Rose Came # of Experience
The roses all were pink and red,
Before the Bumble Bee,
A lover bold, with cloak of gold, … Continue Reading …
Hung # of Reflection
Nine o’clock, and the sun shines as yellow and warm,
As though ’twere a fete day. I wish it would storm:
Wish the thunder would crash, … Continue Reading …
Husks # of Purpose
She looked at her neighbour’s house in the light of the waning day—
A shower of rice on the steps, and the shreds of a bride’s bouquet. … Continue Reading …
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I Am # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
I know not whence I came,
I know not whither I go;
But the fact stands clear that I am here … Continue Reading …
I am running forth to meet you #Poems Of Optimism
I am running forth to meet you, O my Master,
For they tell me you are surely on the way;
Yes, they tell me you are coming back again … Continue Reading …
I Dream # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of Life
In the full meaning of that splendid word.
Its subtle music which few men have heard, … Continue Reading …
I know not # of Experience
Death! I know not what room you are abiding in,
But I will go my way,
Rejoicing day by day, … Continue Reading …
I look to Science # of Experience
I look to Science for the cure of Crime;
To patient righting of a thousand wrongs;
To final healing of a thousand ills. … Continue Reading …
I Told You # of Love
I told you the winter would go, love,
I told you the winter would go.
That he’d flee in shame when the south wind came, … Continue Reading …
I Will Be True # of Love
I will be true. Mad stars forsake their courses,
And, led by reckless meteors, turn away
From paths appointed by Eternal Forces. … Continue Reading …
I Will Be Worthy Of It # of Passion
I may not reach the heights I seek,
My untried strength may fail me,
Or, half-way up the mountain peak, … Continue Reading …
Idler’s Song # of Reflection
I sit in the twilight dim,
At the close of an idle day,
And list to the sweet, soft hymn … Continue Reading …
If # of Love
If I were sent to represent
A portion of a nation
I would not chat, on this and that, … Continue Reading …
If # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
’Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let
No “If” arise on which to lay the blame.
Man makes a mountain of that puny word, … Continue Reading …
If # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
Dear love, if you and I could sail away,
With snowy pennons to the winds unfurled,
Across the waters of some unknown bay, … Continue Reading …
If Christ came Questioning # of Experience
If Christ came questioning His world to-day,
(If Christ came questioning,)
‘What hast thou done to glorify thy God, … Continue Reading …
If I Should Die # of Passion
If I should die, how kind you all would grow!
In that strange hour I would not have one foe.
There are no words too beautiful to say … Continue Reading …
If I were a man, a young man #Poems Of Optimism
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day,
I would look in the eyes of Life undaunted
By any Fate that might threaten me. … Continue Reading …
If we should meet him #Poems Of Optimism
Now what were the words of Jesus,
And what would He pause and say,
If we were to meet in home or street … Continue Reading …
Illogical # of Pleasure
SHE stood beside me while I gave an order for a bonnet.
She shuddered when I said, “And put a bright bird’s wing upon it.” … Continue Reading …
Illusion # of Power
God and I in space alone
And nobody else in view.
“And where are the people, O Lord,” I said, … Continue Reading …
Immortality # of Pleasure
IMMORTAL life is something to be earned,
By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain,
And patient seeking after higher truths. … Continue Reading …
Impatience # of Passion
How can I wait until you come to me?
The once fleet mornings linger by the way,
Their sunny smiles touched with malicious glee … Continue Reading …
In an Old Art Gallery # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Before the statue of a giant Hun,
There stood a dwarf, misshapen and uncouth.
His lifted eyes seemed asking: ‘Why, in sooth, … Continue Reading …
In Faith # of Love
When the soft sweet wind o’ the south went by,
I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye;
And out where the robin sang his song, … Continue Reading …
In Memory of Charlie Spaulding # of Reflection
With eyes that scarce can see for tears,
We look back o’er the little space
Of baby Charlie’s life. Six years … Continue Reading …
In Memory of J. B. # of Reflection
Brave heart, whose bed has now been made
A twelve month neath the grasses,
Checkered by sunshine and by shade, … Continue Reading …
In Memory of Miss Jenny Blanchard # of Reflection
Across the sodden field we gaze,
To woodlands, painted gold and brown;
To hills that hide in purple haze, … Continue Reading …
In The Crowd # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
HOW happy they are, in all seeming,
How gay, or how smilingly proud,
How brightly their faces are beaming, … Continue Reading …
In The Garden # of Love
One moment alone in the garden,
Under the August skies;
The moon had gone but the stars shone on,– … Continue Reading …
In The Long Run # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In the long run fame finds the deserving man.
The lucky wight may prosper for a day,
But in good time true merit leads the van … Continue Reading …
In The Night # Maurine and Other Poems
Sometimes at night, when I sit and write,
I hear the strangest things,—
As my brain grows hot with burning thought, … Continue Reading …
In the Night # of Reflection
In the silent midnight watches,
When the earth was wrapped in gloom,
And the grim and awful darkness … Continue Reading …
Inborn # of Pleasure
AS long as men have eyes wherewith to gaze,
As long as men have eyes.
The sight of beauty to their sense shall be … Continue Reading …
Independence Ode #Independence Ode # of Love
Columbia, fair queen in your glory!
Columbia, the pride of the earth!
We crown you with song-wreath and story; … Continue Reading …
Individuality # of Passion
O yes, I love you, and with all my heart;
Just as a weaker woman loves her own,
Better than I love my beloved art, … Continue Reading …
Inevitable # Maurine and Other Poems
To day I was so weary and I lay
In that delicious state of semi waking,
When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, … Continue Reading …
Inevitable # of Cheer
In that delicious state of semi-waking,
When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, … Continue Reading …
Inevitable # of life
To-day I was so weary and I lay
In that delicious state of semi-waking,
When baby, sitting with his nurse at play, … Continue Reading …
Insight # of Power
Sirs, when you pity us, I say
You waste your pity. Let it stay,
Well corked and stored upon your shelves, … Continue Reading …
Insight # of Sentiment
On the river of life, as I float along,
I see with the spirit’s sight
That many a nauseous weed of wrong … Continue Reading …
Inspiration # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,
Is inspiration, eager to pursue,
But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy, … Continue Reading …
Interlude #Poems Of Optimism, # of Experience
The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer;
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger, … Continue Reading …
Intermediary # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When from the prison of its body free,
My soul shall soar, before it goes to Thee,
Thou great Creator, give it power to know … Continue Reading …
Into Space # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
If the sad old world should jump a cog
Sometime, in its dizzy spinning,
And go off the track with a sudden jog, … Continue Reading …
Is It Done? # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
It is done! in the fire’s fitful flashes,
The last line has withered and curled.
In a tiny white heap of dead ashes … Continue Reading …
Isaura # of Passion
Dost thou not tire, Isaura, of this play?
“What play?” Why, this old play of winning hearts!
Nay, now, lift not thine eyes in that feigned way: … Continue Reading …
It All Will Come Out Right # of Sentiment
Whatever is a cruel wrong,
Whatever is unjust,
The honest years that speed along … Continue Reading …
It Might Have Been # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
“It might have been, had not or that, or this.”
No fate can keep us from the chosen way; … Continue Reading …
Joy # of Reflection
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.
Sorrow is some forgotten word, … Continue Reading …
Justice #Poems Of Optimism, # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
However inexplicable may seem
Event and circumstance upon the earth,
Though favours fall on those who none esteem, … Continue Reading …
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Keep Going # of Experience
Is the goal distant, and troubled the road,
And the way long?
And heavy your load? … Continue Reading …
Keep Out Of The Past # of Pleasure
KEEP out of the Past! for its highways
Are damp with malarial gloom;
Its gardens are sere and its forests are drear. … Continue Reading …
Knitting #Poems Of Optimism
At the concert and the play
Everywhere you see them sitting,
Knitting, knitting. … Continue Reading …
Knowledge # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Would you believe in Presences Unseen—
In life beyond this earthly life?
BE STILL: Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screen … Continue Reading …
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La Mort D’amour # Maurine and Other Poems
When was it that love died? We were so fond,
So very fond, a little while ago.
With leaping pulses, and blood all aglow, … Continue Reading …
Lais when Old # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Lais, when old and all her beauty gone,
Lais, the erstwhile courted pleasure queen,
Walked homeless through Corinth. … Continue Reading …
Lais when Young # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Lais when young, and all her charms in flower,
Lais, whose beauty was the fateful light
That led great ships to anchor in the night … Continue Reading …
Last Love # of Sentiment
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright as one the ripe midsummer brings.
The first faint note the forest warbler sings … Continue Reading …
Lay It Away # of Reflection
We will lay our summer away, my friend,
So tenderly lay it away.
It was bright and sweet to the very end, … Continue Reading …
Lean Down # Maurine and Other Poems
Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine!
From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen
How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, … Continue Reading …
Lean Down and Lift Me Higher # of Reflection
Lean down and lift me higher, Josephine;
From the Eternal Hills hast thou not seen;
How I do strive for heights? but lacking wings, … Continue Reading …
Let Me Lean Hard # of Passion
Let me lean hard upon the Eternal Breast:
In all earth’s devious ways I sought for rest
And found it not. I will be strong, said I, … Continue Reading …
Let them go # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, … Continue Reading …
Let Them Go # of life
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, … Continue Reading …
Leudemanns-on-the-river # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Toward even, when the day leans down
To kiss the upturned face of night,
Out just beyond the loud-voiced town … Continue Reading …
Life # of Experience
Oh! I feel the growing glory
Of our life upon this sphere,
Of the life that like a river … Continue Reading …
Life # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
I feel the great immensity of life.
All little aims slip from me, and I reach
My yearning soul toward the Infinite. … Continue Reading …
Life # of life, of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee,
Doth bear us on his shoulder for a time.
There is no path too steep for him to climb. … Continue Reading …
Life # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong, … Continue Reading …
Life # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
On a bleak, bald hill with a dull world under,
The dreary world of the Commonplace,
I have stood when the whole world seemed a blunder … Continue Reading …
Life # of Reflection
An infant wailing in nameless fear;
A shadow, perchance, in the quiet room,
Or the hum of an insect flying near. … Continue Reading …
Life And I # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Life and I are lovers, straying
Arm in arm along:
Often like two children Maying, … Continue Reading …
Life Is A Privilege # of Power, # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.
To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire, … Continue Reading …
Life Is Too Short # of Passion
Life is too short for any vain regretting;
Let dead delight bury its dead, I say,
And let us go upon our way forgetting … Continue Reading …
Life’s Car # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
‘Hurry up!’
No lingering by old doors of doubt—
No loitering by the way, … Continue Reading …
Life’s Harmonies # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow,
Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, … Continue Reading …
Life’s Journey # of Pleasure
AS we speed out of youth’s sunny station,
The track seems to shine in the light,
But it suddenly shoots over chasms … Continue Reading …
Life’s Opera # of Sentiment
Like an opera-house is the world, I ween,
Where the passionate lover of music is seen … Continue Reading …
Life’s Track # of Sentiment
This game of life is a dangerous play,
Each human soul must watch alway,
From the first to the very last. … Continue Reading …
Limitless # of life, # of Love
There is nothing, I hold, in the way of work
That a human being may not achieve
If he does not falter, or shrink or shirk, … Continue Reading …
Limitless # of Purpose
When the motive is right and the will is strong
There are no limits to human power;
For that great Force back of us moves along … Continue Reading …
Lincoln # of Experience
When God created this good world
A few stupendous peaks were hurled
From His strong hand, and they remain … Continue Reading …
Lines # of Love
Alas! my muse is getting fast;
She uses slang, ’tis very clear.
Last eve, as she was flying past, … Continue Reading …
Lines # of Reflection
The harvest-moon of wedded love,
Fair in the heavens sailing,
Has reached mid-height, and, clear and bright, … Continue Reading …
Lines From “Maurine” # of Love
It was a way of Helen’s not to sing
The songs that other people sang; she took
Sometimes an extract from an olden book– … Continue Reading …
Lines from “Maurine” # of Reflection
I’d rather have my verses win
A place in common peoples’ hearts,
Who, toiling through the strife and din … Continue Reading …
Lines On H–‘S Foot # of Love
It may be you’ve seen her eyes,
Dark and deep like midnight skies;
You mayhap have seen them flash … Continue Reading …
Lines Written upon the Death of James Buell # of Reflection
Something is missing from the balmy spring;
There is no perfume in its gentle breath;
And there are sobs in songs the wild birds sing, … Continue Reading …
Lippo # Maurine and Other Poems
Now we must part, my Lippo. Even so,
I grieve to see thy sudden pained surprise;
Gaze not on me with such accusing eyes— … Continue Reading …
Listen! # of Reflection
Whoever you are as you read this,
Whatever your trouble or grief,
I want you to know and to heed this: … Continue Reading …
Little Blue Hood # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Every morning and every night
There passes our window near the street,
A little girl with an eye so bright, … Continue Reading …
Little Queen # of Passion
Do you remember the name I wore—
The old pet-name of Little Queen—
In the dear, dead days that are no more, … Continue Reading …
Long Ago # of Love
I loved a maiden, long ago,
She held within her hand my fate;
And in the ruddy sunset glow … Continue Reading …
Lord, speak again # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When God had formed the Universe, He thought
Of all the marvels therein to be wrought
And to His aid then Motherhood was brought. … Continue Reading …
Lost # of Love
You left me with the autumn time;
When winter stripped the forest bare,
Then dressed it in his spotless rime; … Continue Reading …
Love # of Love
In all earth’s music, grand, or sweet, or strong,
To hear one name, as if ’twere set in song. … Continue Reading …
Love # of Love
The day is drawing near, my dear,
When you and I must sever;
Yet whether near or far we are, … Continue Reading …
Love # of Purpose
Dreaming of love, the ardent mind of youth
Conceives it one with passion’s brief delights,
With keen desire and rapture. But, in truth, … Continue Reading …
Love and the seasons #Poems Of Optimism
A sudden softness in the wind;
A glint of song, a-wing;
A fragrant sound that trails behind, … Continue Reading …
Love Is Enough # of Power
Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold.
Wealth breeds false aims, and pride, and selfishness;
In those serene, Arcadian days of old … Continue Reading …
Love Much # of Pleasure
LOVE much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Cast sweets into its cup whene’er you can.
No heart so hard, but love at last may win it. … Continue Reading …
Love Song # of Passion
Once in the world’s first prime,
When nothing lived or stirred—
Nothing but new-born Time, … Continue Reading …
Love Thyself Last # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty
To those who walk beside thee down life’s road.
Make glad their days by little acts of beauty … Continue Reading …
Love Will Wane # of Love
When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain
Of all speech that tells me so– … Continue Reading …
Love, Time, and Will # of Sentiment
A soul immortal, Time, God everywhere,
Without, within—how can a heart despair,
Or talk of failure, obstacles, and doubt? … Continue Reading …
Love’s Burial # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
Let us clear a little space,
And make Love a burial-place. … Continue Reading …
Love’s Coming # of Passion
She had looked for his coming as warriors come,
With the clash of arms and the bugle’s call:
But he came instead with a stealthy tread, … Continue Reading …
Love’s Language # of Passion
How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by … Continue Reading …
Love’s Sleep # Maurine and Other Poems
We’ll cover Love with roses,
And sweet sleep he shall take.
None but a fool supposes … Continue Reading …
Love’s Mirage # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Midway upon the route, he paused athirst
And suddenly across the wastes of heat,
He saw cool waters gleaming, and a sweet … Continue Reading …
Love’s Supremacy # of Sentiment
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition
Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own,
So does my love absorb each vain ambition, … Continue Reading …
Luck # of Sentiment
Luck is the tuning of our inmost thought
To chord with God’s great plan.
That done, ah! know, … Continue Reading …
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March # of Sentiment
Like some reformer, who with mien austere,
Neglected dress, and loud insistent tones,
More rasping than the wrongs which she bemoans, … Continue Reading …
Martyrs of peace #Poems Of Optimism
Fame writes ever its song and story,
For heroes of war, in letters of glory. … Continue Reading …
Maurine # Maurine and Other Poems
Part I
I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune,
Oh, beauteous was that morn in early June!
Mellow with sunlight, and with blossoms fair: … Continue Reading …
Part II
To little birds that never tire of humming
About the garden, in the summer weather,
Aunt Ruth compared us, after Helen’s coming, … Continue Reading …
Part III
One golden twelfth part of a checkered year;
One summer month, of sunlight, moonlight, mirth
With not a hint of shadows lurking near, … Continue Reading …
Part IV
“Maurine, Maurine! ’tis ten o’clock! arise,
My pretty sluggard! open those dark eyes,
And see where yonder sun is! Do you know … Continue Reading …
Part V
A visit to a cave some miles away
Was next in order. So, one sunny day,
Four prancing steeds conveyed a laughing load … Continue Reading …
Part VI
There was a week of bustle and of hurry;
A stately home echoed to voices sweet,
Calling, replying; and to tripping feet … Continue Reading …
Part VII
With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught,
The months rolled by me noiselessly, that taught
My hand to grow more skillful in its art, … Continue Reading …
Meditations # of Purpose
I was so proud of you last night, dear girl,
While man with man was striving for your smile.
You never lost your head, nor once dropped down … Continue Reading …
Memorial Day—1892 # of Sentiment
The quiet graves of our country’s braves
Through thirty Junes and Decembers
Have solemnly lain under sun and rain, … Continue Reading …
Memories # of Experience
I am thinking of the Springtime
On the farm out in the West,
When my world held nothing for me that I wanted, … Continue Reading …
Mésalliance # of Passion
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;
It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,
Nor yet of a heart that is breaking: … Continue Reading …
Midsummer # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
After the May time, and after the June time,
Rare with blossoms and perfumes sweet,
Cometh the round world’s royal noon time, … Continue Reading …
Mission # of Power
If you are sighing for a lofty work,
If great ambitions dominate your mind,
Just watch yourself and see you do not shirk … Continue Reading …
Mistakes # of Reflection
My life is full of sad mistakes,–
Today I was thinking about them,
And thinking of all that I might have been … Continue Reading …
Mistakes # of Sentiment
God sent us here to make mistakes,
To strive, to fail, to re-begin,
To taste the tempting fruit of sin, … Continue Reading …
Mobilisation #Poems Of Optimism
Oh the Kings of earth have mobilised their men.
See them moving, valour proving,
To the fields of glory going, … Continue Reading …
Mockery # of Passion
Why do we grudge our sweets so to the living
Who, God knows, find at best too much of gall,
And then with generous, open hands kneel, giving … Continue Reading …
Momus, God Of Laughter # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Though with gods the world is cumbered,
Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered,
Never god was known to be … Continue Reading …
Monday # Maurine and Other Poems
Awake! arise! Cast off thy drowsy dreams!
Red in the East, behold the Morning gleams. … Continue Reading …
Morning Prayer # of Power
Let me to-day do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world’s vast store,
And may I be so favoured as to make … Continue Reading …
Most blest is he # of Experience
Most blest is he who in the morning time
Sets forth upon his journey with no staff
Shaped by another for his use. Who sees … Continue Reading …
Mother’s Loss # of Reflection
If I could clasp my little babe
Upon my breast to-night,
I would not mind the blowing wind … Continue Reading …
Music In The Flat # Custer, and Other Poems
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat;
I had a taste for singing and playing and all that.
And Tom, who loved to hear me, said he hoped I would not stop … Continue Reading …
My Comrade # of Reflection
Out from my window westward
I turn full oft my face;
But the mountains rebuke the vision … Continue Reading …
My faith #Poems Of Optimism
My faith is rooted in no written creed;
And there are those who call me heretic;
Yet year on year, though I be well or sick … Continue Reading …
My flower room #Poems Of Optimism
My Flower Room is such a little place,
Scarce twenty feet by nine; yet in that space
I have met God; yea, many a radiant hour … Continue Reading …
My Friend # of Passion
When first I looked upon the face of Pain
I shrank repelled, as one shrinks from a foe
Who stands with dagger poised, as for a blow. … Continue Reading …
My Grave # of Pleasure
IF, when I die, I must be buried, let
No cemetery engulph me—no lone grot,
Where the great palpitating world comes not, … Continue Reading …
My Heaven # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Unhoused in deserts of accepted thought,
And lost in jungles of confusing creeds,
My soul strayed, homeless, finding its own needs … Continue Reading …
My Heritage # of Passion
I into life so full of love was sent
That all the shadows which fall on the way
Of every human being could not stay, … Continue Reading …
My Home # of Cheer
This is the place that I love the best,
A little brown house like a ground-bird’s nest,
Hid among grasses, and vines, and trees, … Continue Reading …
My Ships # of Power, # of Love
If all the ships I have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
Ah, well! the harbour could not hold … Continue Reading …
My Vision # of Reflection
Wherever my feet may wander
Wherever I chance to be,
There comes, with the coming of even’ time … Continue Reading …
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Necessity # of Pleasure
NECESSITY, whom long I deemed my foe,
Thou cold, unsmiling, and hard-visaged dame,
Now I no longer see thy face, I know … Continue Reading …
Neutral #Poems Of Optimism
That pale word ‘Neutral’ sits becomingly
On lips of weaklings. But the men whose brains
Find fuel in their blood, the men whose minds … Continue Reading …
Never Mind # of Sentiment
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, … Continue Reading …
New And Old # of Passion
I and new love, in all its living bloom,
Sat vis-a-vis, while tender twilight hours
Went softly by us, treading as on flowers. … Continue Reading …
New Orleans, 1885 # of Reflection
A queen of indolence and idle grace,
Robed in the remnants of a costly gown,
She turns the languor of her lovely face … Continue Reading …
New Year # of Pleasure
AS the old year sinks down in Time’s ocean,
Stand ready to launch with the new,
And waste no regrets, no emotion, … Continue Reading …
New Year # of Pleasure
I SAW on the hills of the morning,
The form of the New Year arise,
He stood like a statue adorning … Continue Reading …
New Year # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
‘The night is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear;
Who is it knocking at my door?’ … Continue Reading …
New Year # of Sentiment
New Year, I look straight in your eyes—
Our ways and our interests blend;
You may be a foe in disguise, … Continue Reading …
New Year’s Day # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When with clanging and with ringing
Comes the year’s initial day,
I can feel the rhythmic swinging … Continue Reading …
Night # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
As some dusk mother shields from all alarms
The tired child she gathers to her breast,
The brunette Night doth fold me in her arms, … Continue Reading …
Nirvana # of Experience
A drop of water risen from the ocean
Forgot its cause, and spake with deep emotion
Unto a passing breeze. ‘How desolate … Continue Reading …
No Classes! # of Pleasure
NO classes here! Why, that is idle talk.
The village beau sneers at the country boor;
The importuning mendicants who walk … Continue Reading …
No Spring # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Up from the South come the birds that were banished,
Frightened away by the presence of frost.
Back to the vale comes the verdure that vanished, … Continue Reading …
Noblesse Oblige # of Power # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
I hold it the duty of one who is gifted
And specially dowered in all men’s sight,
To know no rest till his life is lifted … Continue Reading …
Not Quite The Same # of Passion
Not quite the same the spring-time seems to me,
Since that sad season when in separate ways
Our paths diverged. There are no more such days … Continue Reading …
Nothing But Stones # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
I think I never passed so sad an hour,
Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night.
The edifice from basement to the tower … Continue Reading …
Nothing New # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
FROM the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary,
Nothing is new that is done or said,
The leaves are telling the same old story– … Continue Reading …
Nothing Remains # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Nothing remains of unrecorded ages
That lie in the silent cemetery time;
Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages, … Continue Reading …
Now # of Pleasure
ONE looks behind him to some vanished time
And says, “Ah, I was happy then, alack!
I did not know it was my life’s best prime— … Continue Reading …
Now # of Power
I leave with God to-morrow’s where and how,
And do concern myself but with the Now,
That little word, though half the future’s length, … Continue Reading …
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Obstacles # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
There are no lions in the street;
No lions in the way.
Go seek the goal, thou slothful soul, … Continue Reading …
Occupation # of Purpose
There must in heaven be many industries
And occupations, varied, infinite;
Or heaven could not be heaven. … Continue Reading …
Oh, poor, sick world #Poems Of Optimism
Lord of all the Universe, when I think of YOU,
Flinging stars out into space, moving suns and tides;
Then this little mortal mind gets the larger view, … Continue Reading …
Old # of Reflection
They stood together at the garden gate;
They heard the night bird calling to his mate;
The sun had set, … Continue Reading …
Old And New # of Passion
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays,
Old times, old loves, old friendship, and old wine.
Why should the old monopolize all praise? … Continue Reading …
On Avon’s breast I saw a stately swan #Poems Of Optimism
One day when England’s June was at its best,
I saw a stately and imperious swan
Floating on Avon’s fair untroubled breast. … Continue Reading …
On seeing ‘The House of Julia’ at Herculaneum # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Not great Vesuvius, in all his ire,
Nor all the centuries, could hide your shame.
There is the little window where you came, … Continue Reading …
One Of Us Two # of Pleasure
THE day will dawn, when one of us shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has grown dumb.
And morns will fade, noons pale, and shadows darken, … Continue Reading …
One Woman’s History # of Love
“The maiden free, the maiden wed.
Can never, never be the same,
A new life springs from out the dead … Continue Reading …
One Woman’s Plea # of Love
Now God be with the men who stand
In Legislatve halls, to-day.
Those chosen princes of our land– … Continue Reading …
Only A Kiss # of Love
Once, when the summer lay on the hilltops,
And the sunshine fell like a golden flame,
Out from the city’s dust and turmoil … Continue Reading …
Only A Sad Mistake # of Love
Only a blunder–a sad mistake;
All my own fault and mine alone.
The saddest error a heart can make; … Continue Reading …
Only A Simple Rhyme # of Passion
Only a simple rhyme of love and sorrow,
Where “blisses” rhymed with “kisses,” “heart,” with “dart:”
Yet, reading it, new strength I seemed to borrow, … Continue Reading …
Only be still # of Experience
‘Only be still, and in the silence grow,’
If thou art seeking what the gods bestow.
This is the simple, safe, and certain way … Continue Reading …
Only Dreams # of Reflection
A maiden sat in the sunset glow
Of the shadowy, beautiful Long Ago,
That we see through a mist of tears. … Continue Reading …
Opportunity # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Send forth your heart’s desire, and work and wait;
The opportunities of life are brought … Continue Reading …
Optimism # of Pleasure
I’M no reformer; for I see more light
Than darkness in the world; mine eyes are quick
To catch the first dim radiance of the dawn, … Continue Reading …
Our Angel # of Reflection
Upon a couch all robed by careful hands
For her repose, the maiden Mable lies
Her long bright hair is braided in smooth bands– … Continue Reading …
Our Blessings # of Love
Sitting to-day in the sunshine,
That touched me with fingers of love,
I thought of the manifold blessings … Continue Reading …
Our Souls # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Our souls should be vessels receiving
The waters of love for relieving
The sorrows of men. … Continue Reading …
Out of the Depths # of Reflection
Out of the midnight, rayless and starless,
Into the morning’s golden light;
Out of the clutches of wrong and ruin, … Continue Reading …
Over The Alley # of Love
Here in my office I sit and write
Hour on hour, and day on day,
With no one to speak to from morn till night, … Continue Reading …
Over The Banisters # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
Over the banisters bends a face,
Daringly sweet and beguiling.
Somebody stands in careless grace … Continue Reading …
Over the May Hill # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
All through the night time, and all through the day time,
Dreading the morning and dreading the night,
Nearer and nearer we drift to the May time … Continue Reading …
Over The Water # of Love
Think of it, think of it over the water
Thousands of men to-day march on to death,
Think how the sun shines on fields red with slaughter– … Continue Reading …
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Pain’s Proof # of Pleasure
I THINK man’s great capacity for pain
Proves his immortal birthright. I am sure
No merely human mind could bear the strain … Continue Reading …
Pardoned Out # of Experience
I’m pardoned out. Again the stars
Shine on me with their myriad eyes.
So long I’ve peered ’twixt iron bars, … Continue Reading …
Peace And Love # of Pleasure
THERE are two angels, messengers of light,
Both born of God, who yet are bitterest foes.
No human breast their dual presence knows. … Continue Reading …
Peace At The Goal # of Pleasure
FROM the soul of a man who was homeless
Came the deathless song of home.
And the praises of rest are chanted best … Continue Reading …
Peace should not come #Poems Of Optimism
Peace should not come along this foul, earth way.
Peace should not come, until we cleanse the path.
God waited for us; now in awful wrath … Continue Reading …
Penalty # of Passion
Because of the fullness of what I had
All that I have seems void and vain.
If I had not been happy I were not sad; … Continue Reading …
Penalty # of Reflection
Because of the fullness of what I had
All that I have seems void and vain.
If I had not been happy I were not sad; … Continue Reading …
Perfection # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
The leaf that ripens only in the sun
Is dull and shrivelled ere its race is run.
The leaf that makes a carnival of death … Continue Reading …
Perfectness # of Passion
All perfect things are saddening in effect.
The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,
The matchless tinting on the royal rose … Continue Reading …
Perished # of Reflection
I called to the summer sun,
“Come over the hills to-day!
Unlock the rivers, and tell them to run, … Continue Reading …
Philosophy # Maurine and Other Poems
At morn the wise man walked abroad,
Proud with the learning of great fools.
He laughed and said, “There is no God— … Continue Reading …
Platonic # Maurine and Other Poems
I knew it the first of the Summer—
I knew it the same at the end—
That you and your love were plighted, … Continue Reading …
Plea To Science # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
O Science, reaching backward through the distance,
Most earnest child of God,
Exposing all the secrets of existence, … Continue Reading …
Poems Of The Week # Maurine and Other Poems
– Sunday # Maurine and Other Poems
Lie still and rest, in that serene repose
That on this holy morning comes to those … Continue Reading …
– Monday # Maurine and Other Poems
Awake! arise! Cast off thy drowsy dreams!
Red in the East, behold the Morning gleams. … Continue Reading …
– Tuesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Another morning’s banners are unfurled—
Another day looks smiling on the world. … Continue Reading …
– Wednesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Half way unto the end—the week’s high noon.
The morning hours do speed away so soon! … Continue Reading …
– Thursday # Maurine and Other Poems
So well the week has sped, hast thou a friend
Go spend an hour in converse. It will lend … Continue Reading …
– Friday # Maurine and Other Poems
From feasts abstain; be temperate, and pray;
Fast if thou wilt; and yet, throughout the day, … Continue Reading …
– Saturday # Maurine and Other Poems
Now with the almost finished task make haste;
So near the night thou hast no time to waste. … Continue Reading …
Poems of the Week # of Cheer
Lie still and rest, in that serene repose
That on this holy morning comes to those
Who have been burdened with the cares which make … Continue Reading …
Possession # of Cheer
That which we had we still possess,
Though leaves may drop and stars may fall;
No circumstance can make it less, … Continue Reading …
Praise day #Poems Of Optimism
Let us halt now for a space in our hurrying;
Let us take time to look up and look out;
Let us refuse for a spell to be worrying; … Continue Reading …
Prayer # of Cheer
I do not undertake to say
That literal answers come from Heaven,
But I know this—that when I pray … Continue Reading …
Prayer # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;
Then ask God’s help; it will not be denied. … Continue Reading …
Preaching vs. Practice # Custer, and Other Poems
It is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade;
It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat, … Continue Reading …
Preparation # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
We must not force events, but rather make
The heart soil ready for their coming, as
The earth spreads carpets for the feet of Spring, … Continue Reading …
Presumption # of Power
Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder—
I check myself, and say, “That mighty One
Who made the solar system cannot blunder— … Continue Reading …
Presumption # of Reflection
Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder–
I check myself, and say, “That mighty One
Who made the solar system cannot blunder– … Continue Reading …
Progress # of Experience
There is no progress in the world of bees,
However wise and wonderful they are.
Their wisdom makes not increase. Lies the bar, … Continue Reading …
Progress # of Passion
Let there be many windows to your soul,
That all the glory of the universe
May beautify it. Not the narrow pane … Continue Reading …
Progression # of Experience
To each progressive soul there comes a day
When all things that have pleased and satisfied
Grow flavourless, the springs of joy seem dried. … Continue Reading …
Protest #Poems Of Optimism, # of Purpose
To sit in silence when we should protest
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised … Continue Reading …
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Queries # of Passion
Well, how has it been with you since we met
That last strange time of a hundred times?
When we met to swear that we could forget— … Continue Reading …
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Read at the Benefit of Clara Morris # of Experience
The Radiant Rulers of Mystic Regions
Where souls of artists are fitted for birth
Gathered together their lovely legions … Continue Reading …
Realisation # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot;
Or so the unperceiving thought,
Who looked no deeper than her face, … Continue Reading …
Realisation # of Sentiment
I tread the paths of earlier times
Where all my steps were set to rhymes. … Continue Reading …
Recompense # of Pleasure
STRAIGHT through my heart this fact to-day,
By Truth’s own hand is driven:
God never takes one thing away, … Continue Reading …
Red Carnations # of Passion
One time in Arcadie’s fair bowers
There met a bright immortal band,
To choose their emblems from the flowers … Continue Reading …
Reform # of Sentiment
The time has come when men with hearts and brains
Must rise and take the misdirected reins … Continue Reading …
Refuted # of Pleasure
IT may be, yet I have not found it so.
In those first golden dreams of future fame
I did not find such happiness as came … Continue Reading …
Regret # of Passion
There is a haunting phantom called Regret,
A shadowy creature robed somewhat like Woe,
But fairer in the face, whom all men know … Continue Reading …
Regret and Remorse # of Sentiment
Regret with streaming eyes doth seem alway
A maiden widowed on her wedding day. … Continue Reading …
Remembered # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
His art was loving; Eres set his sign
Upon that youthful forehead, and he drew
The hearts of women, as the sun draws dew. … Continue Reading …
Repetition # of Power
Over and over and over
These truths I will weave in song—
That God’s great plan needs you and me, … Continue Reading …
Replies #Poems Of Optimism
ou have lived long and learned the secret of life, O Seer!
Tell me what are the best three things to seek—
The best three things for a man to seek on earth? … Continue Reading …
Resigned # of Love
My babe was moaning in its sleep,
I leaned and kissed it where it lay,
My pain was such I could not weep, … Continue Reading …
Resolve # of Passion
Build on resolve, and not upon regret,
The structure of thy future. Do not grope
Among the shadows of old sins, but let … Continue Reading …
Resolve # of Pleasure
AS the dead year is clasped by a dead December,
So let your dead sins with your dead days lie.
A new life is yours, and a new hope. Remember, … Continue Reading …
Respite # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
The mighty conflict, which we call existence,
Doth wear upon the body and the soul,
Our vital forces wasted in resistance, … Continue Reading …
Response # of Passion
I said this morning, as I leaned and threw
My shutters open to the Spring’s surprise,
“Tell me, O Earth, how is it that in you … Continue Reading …
Resurrection # of Experience
Pausing a moment ere the day was done,
While yet the earth was scintillant with light,
I backward glanced. From valley, plain, and height, … Continue Reading …
Retrospection # of Cheer
I look down the lengthening distance
Far back to youth’s valley of hope.
How strange seemed the ways of existence, … Continue Reading …
Reunited # of Passion
Let us begin, dear love, where we left off;
Tie up the broken threads of that old dream,
And go on happy as before, and seem … Continue Reading …
Reward #Poems Of Optimism
Fate used me meanly; but I looked at her and laughed,
That none might know how bitter was the cup I quaffed. … Continue Reading …
Rich And Poor # of Love
By the castle-gate my lady stands,
Viewing broad acres and spreading lands. … Continue Reading …
River and Sea # of Cheer
We stood by the river that swept
In its glory and grandeur away;
But never a pulse o’ me leapt, … Continue Reading …
River And Sea # of Love
Under the light of the silver moon,
We two sat, when our hearts were young;
The night was warm with the breath of June, … Continue Reading …
Romney # of Cheer
Nay, Romney, nay—I will not hear you say
Those words again: “I love you, love you sweet!”
You are profane—blasphemous. I repeat, … Continue Reading …
Rubies # of Sentiment
The crimson life-drops from a virgin heart
Pierced to the core by Cupid’s fatal dart.
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Sapphires # of Sentiment
Lost rays of light that wandered off alone
And down through space were hurled … Continue Reading …
Satiety # of Sentiment
To yearn for what we have not had, to sit
With hungry eyes glued on the Future’s gate,
Why, that is heaven compared to having it … Continue Reading …
Saturday # Maurine and Other Poems
Now with the almost finished task make haste;
So near the night thou hast no time to waste. … Continue Reading …
Searching # of Love, # of Reflection
These quiet Autumn days,
My soul, like Noah’s dove, on airy wings
Goes out and searches for the hidden things … Continue Reading …
Secret Thoughts # of Pleasure
I HOLD it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that we send them forth to fill … Continue Reading …
Secrets # Maurine and Other Poems
Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone;
Why, even God’s stupendous secret, Death,
We one by one, with our expiring breath, … Continue Reading …
Secrets # of life
Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone;
Why, even God’s stupendous secret, Death,
We one by one, with our expiring breath, … Continue Reading …
See? # of Experience
If one proves weak who you fancied strong,
Or false who you fancied true,
Just ease the smart of your wounded heart … Continue Reading …
Seeking for Happiness # of Purpose
Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;
The road leads not down avenues of haste;
But often gently winds through by ways lowly, …Continue Reading …
Separation #Poems Of Optimism
One decade and a half since first we came
With hearts aflame
Into Love’s Paradise, as man and mate; … Continue Reading …
September # of Sentiment
My life’s long radiant Summer halts at last,
And lo! beside my path way I behold
Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold … Continue Reading …
Sestina # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
I wandered o’er the vast green plains of youth,
And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height
Fame’s silhouette stood sharp against the skies. … Continue Reading …
Shadows # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I am sorry in the gladness
Of the joys that crown my days,
For the souls that sit in sadness … Continue Reading …
Show Me The Way # of Passion
Show me the way that leads to the true life.
I do not care what tempests may assail me,
I shall be given courage for the strife; … Continue Reading …
Shrines # of Sentiment
About a holy shrine or sacred place,
Where many hearts have bowed in earnest prayer,
The loveliest spirits congregate from space, … Continue Reading …
Sing to Me # of Reflection
Sing to me! something of sunlight and bloom,
I am so compassed with sorrow and gloom,
I am so sick with the world’s noise and strife,– … Continue Reading …
Sirius # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way
Full sixty thousand years have gone,
Yet hour by hour, and day by day, … Continue Reading …
Sisters of Mine # of Purpose
Sisters, sisters of mine, have we done what we could
In all the old ways, through all the new days,
To better the race and to make life sweet and good? … Continue Reading …
Sleep And Death # of Pleasure
WHEN sleep drops down beside my Love and me,
Although she wears the countenance of a friend,
A jealous foe we prove her in the end. … Continue Reading …
Sleep’s Treachery # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
As the grey twilight, tiptoed down the deep
And shadowy valley, to the day’s dark end,
She whom I thought my ever-faithful friend, … Continue Reading…
Slipping Away # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Slipping away—slipping away!
Out of our brief year slips the May;
And Winter lingers, and Summer flies; … Continue Reading …
Smiles # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Smile a little, smile a little,
As you go along,
Not alone when life is pleasant, … Continue Reading …
Snowed Under # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Of a thousand things that the Year snowed under–
The busy Old Year who has gone away–
How many will rise in the Spring, I wonder, … Continue Reading …
So Long in Coming # of Reflection
When shall I hear the thrushes sing,
And see their graceful, round throats swelling?
When shall I watch the bluebirds bring … Continue Reading …
Solitude # of Passion
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, … Continue Reading …
Song # of Power
O praise me not with your lips, dear one!
Though your tender words I prize.
But dearer by far is the soulful gaze … Continue Reading …
Song of the Road # of Purpose
I am a Road; a good road, fair and smooth and broad;
And I link with my beautiful tether
Town and Country together, … Continue Reading …
Song Of The Spirit # of Power
All the aim of life is just
Getting back to God.
Spirit casting off its dust, … Continue Reading …
Song of the Spirit # of Reflection
Too sweet and too subtle for pen or for tongue
In phrases unwritten and measures unsung,
As deep and as strange as the sounds of the sea, … Continue Reading …
Song Of The Wheelman # of Love
Over my desk in a dark office bending,
Dim seems the sunlight and dull seems the day;
But when the afternoon draws toward an ending, … Continue Reading …
Sonnet # of Passion
Methinks ofttimes my heart is like some bee
That goes forth through the summer day and sings.
And gathers honey from all growing things … Continue Reading …
Sorrow’s Uses # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
The uses of sorrow I comprehend
Better and better at each year’s end. … Continue Reading …
Sorry # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
There is much that makes me sorry as I journey down life’s way,
And I seem to see more pathos in poor human lives each day.
I’m sorry for the strong, brave men who shield the weak from harm, … Continue Reading …
Strength # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Who is the strong? Not he who puts to test
His sinews with the strong and proves the best;
But he who dwells where weaklings congregate, … Continue Reading …
Success # of Sentiment
As we gaze up life’s slope, as we gaze
In the morn, ere the dewdrops are dry,
What splendour hangs over the ways, … Continue Reading …
Summer Dreams # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When the Summer sun is shining,
And the green things push and grow,
Oft my heart runs over measure, … Continue Reading …
Summer Song # of Reflection
The meadow lark’s trill and the brown thrush’s whistle
From morning to evening fill all the sweet air,
And my heart is as light as the down of a thistle– … Continue Reading …
Summer’s Farewell # of Experience
All in the time when Earth did most deplore
The cold, ungracious aspect of young May,
Sweet Summer came, and bade him smile once more; … Continue Reading …
Sun Shadows # of Sentiment
There never was success so nobly gained,
Or victory so free from selfish dross,
But in the winning some one had been pained … Continue Reading …
Sunday # Maurine and Other Poems
Lie still and rest, in that serene repose
That on this holy morning comes to those … Continue Reading …
Sunset # of Passion
I saw the day lean o’er the world’s sharp edge
And peer into night’s chasm, dark and damp;
High in his hand he held a blazing lamp, … Continue Reading …
Sunshine and Shadow # of Reflection
Life has its shadows, as well as its sun;
Its lights and its shades, all twined together.
I tried to single them out, one by one, … Continue Reading …
Surrender # of Pleasure
LOVE, when we met, ’twas like two planets meeting.
Strange chaos followed; body, soul, and heart
Seemed shaken, thrilled, and startled by that greeting. … Continue Reading …
Sweet Danger # of Love
The danger of war, with its havoc of life,
The danger of ocean, when storms are rife,
The danger of jungles, where wild beasts hide, … Continue Reading …
Swimming Song # of Sentiment
I am coming, coming to thee,
My strong-armed lover, the Sea!
On thy great broad breast I will lie and rest, … Continue Reading …
Sympathy # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Is the way hard and thorny, oh, my brother?
Do tempests beat, and adverse wild winds blow?
And are you spent, and broken, at each nightfall, … Continue Reading …
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Take My Hand # of Love
Strengthen me for every contest,
Let my prayers be not in vain,
I would bless Thee, in my sorrow; … Continue Reading …
Thank God for Life # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Thank God for life, in such an age as this,
Rich with the promises of better things.
Thank God for being part of this great nation’s heart, … Continue Reading …
Thanksgiving # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies,
For blessings common in our sight … Continue Reading …
Thanksgiving # of Reflection
Thank God for men! I hear the shout
From east and west go up, and out.
Thank God for men whose hearts are true; … Continue Reading …
The Actor # of Pleasure
OH, man, with your wonderful dower,
Oh, woman, with genius and grace,
You can teach the whole world with your power, … Continue Reading …
The Age of Motored Things # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
The wonderful age of the world I sing—
The age of battery, coil and spring,
Of steam, and storage, and motored thing. … Continue Reading …
The All-creative Spark # of Sentiment
Pain can go guised as joy, dross pass for gold,
Vulgarity can masquerade as wit,
Or spite wear friendship’s garments; but I hold … Continue Reading …
The answer #Poems Of Optimism
Up to the gates of gleaming Pearl,
There came the spirit of a girl,
And to the white-robed Guard she said: … Continue Reading …
The Awakening # of Experience
I love the tropics, where sun and rain
Go forth together, a joyous train,
To hold up the green, gay side of the world, … Continue Reading…
The Beautiful Blue Danube # of Passion
They drift down the hall together;
He smiles in her lifted eyes;
Like waves of that mighty river, … Continue Reading …
The Beautiful Land Of Nod # of Passion
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sailing away from here … Continue Reading …
The Belle of the Season # of Reflection
Nay–do not bring the jewels–
Away with that robe of white,
I am sick of the ball room, sister– … Continue Reading …
The Belle’s Soliloquy # of Reflection
Heigh ho! well, the season’s over!
Once again we’ve come to Lent!
Programme’s changed from balls and parties– … Continue Reading …
The Birth of Jealousy # of Experience
With brooding mien and sultry eyes,
Outside the gates of Paradise
Eve sat, and fed the faggot flame … Continue Reading …
The Birth Of The Opal # of Pleasure
THE Sunbeam loved the Moonbeam,
And followed her low and high,
But the Moonbeam fled and hid her head, … Continue Reading …
The Breaking of Chains # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Between the ringing of bells and the musical clang of chimes
I hear a sound like the breaking of chains, all through these Christmas times. … Continue Reading …
The Call # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
All wantonly in hours of joy,
I made a song of pain.
Soon Grief drew near, and paused to hear, … Continue Reading …
The Campfire # of Love
When night hung low and dew fell damp,
There fell athwart the shadows
The gleaming watchfires of the camp, … Continue Reading …
The Change # of Reflection
She leaned out into the soft June weather,
With her long loose tresses the night breeze played;
Her eyes were as blue as the bells on the heather: … Continue Reading …
The Choosing of Esther # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
… So thou art Esther? Esther! ’tis a name
Breathed into sound as softly as a sigh.
A woman’s name should melt upon the lips … Continue Reading …
The Chosen # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
They stood before the Angel at the gate;
The Angel asked: ‘Why should you enter in?’
One said: ‘On earth my place was high and great;’ … Continue Reading …
The Christian’s New Year Prayer # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
Thou Christ of mine, Thy gracious ear low bending
Through these glad New Year days,
To catch the countless prayers to heaven ascending– … Continue Reading …
The City # of Pleasure
I OWN the charms of lovely Nature; still,
In human nature more delight I find.
Though sweet the murmuring voices of the rill, … Continue Reading …
The Common Lot # of Passion
It is a common fate—a woman’s lot—
To waste on one the riches of her soul,
Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot … Continue Reading …
The Convention # of Purpose
From the Queen Bee mother, the mother Beast, and the mother Fowl in the fen,
A call went up to the human world, to Woman, the mother of men. … Continue Reading …
The Coquette # of Passion, # Maurine and Other Poems
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,
That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,
And every thought that found her, left a dart … Continue Reading …
The Cost # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
God finished woman in the twilight hour
And said, ‘To-morrow thou shalt find thy place:
Man’s complement, the mother of the race— … Continue Reading …
The Creed # of Passion
Whoever was begotten by pure love,
And came desired and welcome into life,
Is of immaculate conception. He … Continue Reading …
The Creed To Be # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Our thoughts are moulding unmade spheres,
And, like a blessing or a curse,
They thunder down the formless years, … Continue Reading …
The Decadent # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Among the virile hosts he passed along,
Conspicuous for an undetermined grace
Of sexless beauty. In his form and face … Continue Reading …
The Depths # of Sentiment
Not only sun-kissed heights are fair. Below
The cold, dark billows of the frowning deep
Do lovely blossoms of the ocean sleep, … Continue Reading …
The Difference # of Pleasure
PASSION is what the sun feels for the earth
When harvests ripen into golden birth. … Continue Reading …
The Disappointed # of Pleasure
THERE are songs enough for the hero
Who dwells on the heights of fame;
I sing for the disappointed— … Continue Reading …
The Doomed City’s Prayer # of Reflection
I heard a low sound, like a troubled soul praying:
And the winds of the winter night brought it to me.
‘Twas the doomed city’s voice: “Oh, kind snow,” it was saying, … Continue Reading …
The Duel # Custer, and Other Poems
Oh many a duel the world has seen
That was bitter with hate, that was red with gore,
But I sing of a duel by far more cruel … Continue Reading …
The Duet # of Passion
I was smoking a cigarette;
Maud, my wife, and the tenor, McKey,
Were singing together a blithe duet, … Continue Reading …
The Earth # of Power
The earth is yours and mine,
Our God’s bequest.
That testament divine … Continue Reading …
The Edict of the Sex # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Two thousand years had passed since Christ was born,
When suddenly there rose a mighty host
Of women, sweeping to a central goal … Continue Reading …
The Empty Bowl # of Experience
I held the golden vessel of my soul
And prayed that God would fill it from on high.
Day after day the importuning cry … Continue Reading …
The End of the Summer # of Sentiment
The birds laugh loud and long together
When Fashion’s followers speed away
At the first cool breath of autumn weather. … Continue Reading …
The Engine # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
INTO the gloom of the deep, dark night,
With panting breath and a startled scream;
Swift as a bird in sudden flight, … Continue Reading …
The eternal now #Poems Of Optimism
Time with his back against the mighty wall,
Which hides from view all future joy and sorrow,
Hears, without answer, the impatient call … Continue Reading …
The Eternal Will # of Sentiment
There is no thing we cannot overcome
Say not thy evil instinct is inherited,
Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, … Continue Reading …
The Faith we Need # of Purpose
Too tall our structures, and too swift our pace;
Not so we mount, not so we gain the race.
Too loud the voice of commerce in the land; … Continue Reading …
The Farewell # of life, # of Love
‘Tis not the untried soldier new to danger
Who fears to enter into active strife.
Amidst the roll of drums, the cannon’s rattle, … Continue Reading …
The Farewell Of Clarimonde # of Passion
Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.
Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,
Thy hungering heart forever must regret me, … Continue Reading …
The Fault Of The Age # of Pleasure
THE fault of the age is a mad endeavor
To leap to heights that were made to climb:
By a burst of strength, of a thought most clever, … Continue Reading …
The Fire Brigade # of Power
Hark! high o’er the rattle and clamour and clatter
Of traffic-filled streets, do you hear that loud noise?
And pushing and rushing to see what’s the matter, … Continue Reading …
The Ghosts #Poems Of Optimism
There was no wind, and yet the air
Seemed suddenly astir;
There were no forms, and yet all space … Continue Reading …
The Goal # of Experience
All roads that lead to God are good;
What matters it, your faith, or mine;
Both centre at the goal divine … Continue Reading …
The Goal # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
All your wonderful inventions,
All your houses vast and tall,
All your great gun-fronted vessels, … Continue Reading …
The Graduates # of Purpose
I saw them beautiful, in fair array upon Commencement Day;
Lissome and lovely, radiant and sweet
As cultured roses, brought to their estate … Continue Reading …
The Greater Love # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Hear thou my prayer, great God of opulence;
Give me no blessings, save as recompense
For blessings which I lovingly bestow … Continue Reading …
The Gulf Stream # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Skilled mariner, and counted sane and wise,
That was a curious thing which chanced to me,
So good a sailor on so fair a sea. … Continue Reading …
The Hammock’s Complaint # Custer, and Other Poems
Who thinks how desolate and strange
To me must seem the autumn’s change,
When housed in attic or in chest, … Continue Reading …
The harp’s song #Poems Of Optimism
All day, all day in a calm like death
The harp hung waiting the sea wind’s breath. … Continue Reading …
The Heights # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I cried, ‘Dear Angel, lead me to the heights,
And spur me to the top.’
The Angel answered, ‘Stop … Continue Reading …
The House of Life # of Cheer
All wondering, and eager-eyed, within her portico
I made my plea to Hostess Life, one morning long ago. … Continue Reading …
The Hymn of the Republic # of Experience
I have listened to the sighing of the burdened and the bound,
I have heard it change to crying, with a menace in the sound;
I have seen the money-getters pass unheeding on the way, … Continue Reading …
The Instructor # of Pleasure
NOT till we meet with Love in all his beauty,
In all his solemn majesty and worth,
Can we translate the meaning of life’s duty, … Continue Reading …
The invisible helpers #Poems Of Optimism
There are, there are
Invisible Great Helpers of the race.
Across unatlased continents of space, … Continue Reading …
The Island of Endless Play # of Purpose
Said Willie to Tom, ‘Let us hie away
To the wonderful Island of Endless Play. … Continue Reading …
The Kettle # Custer, and Other Poems
There’s many a house of grandeur,
With turret, tower and dome,
That knows not peace or comfort, … Continue Reading …
The King and the Siren # of Reflection
The harsh king–Winter–sat upon the hills,
And reigned, and ruled the earth right royally.
He locked the rivers, lakes, and all the rills– … Continue Reading …
The Kingdom Of Love # of Love
In the dawn of the day, when the sea and the earth
Reflected the sunrise above,
I set forth, with a heart full of courage and mirth, … Continue Reading …
The Ladder # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Unto each mortal who comes to earth
A ladder is given by God, at birth,
And up this ladder the soul must go, … Continue Reading …
The Lady and the Dame # of Sentiment
So, thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest,
To keep Time’s perishing touch at bay
From the roseate splendour of the cheek so tender, … Continue Reading …
The Lady Of Tears # of Pleasure
THROUGH valley and hamlet and city,
Wherever humanity dwells,
With a heart full of infinite pity, … Continue Reading …
The Land Between # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Between the little Here and larger Yonder,
There is a realm (or so one day I read)
Where faithful spirits love-enchained may wander, … Continue Reading …
The Land of Content # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
I set out for the Land of Content,
By the gay crowded pleasure-highway,
With laughter, and jesting, I went … Continue Reading …
The land of the gone-away-souls #Poems Of Optimism
Oh! that is a beautiful land I wis,
The land of the Gone-Away Souls.
Yes, a lovelier region by far than this … Continue Reading …
The last dance #Poems Of Optimism
The wave of the ocean, the leaf of the wood,
In the rhythm of motion proclaim life is good.
The stars are all swinging to metres and rhyme, … Continue Reading …
The Law # of Pleasure
LIFE is a Shylock; always it demands
The fullest usurer’s interest for each pleasure.
Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; … Continue Reading …
The Law # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
When the great universe was wrought
To might and majesty from naught,
The all creative force was— … Continue Reading …
The Law # of Sentiment
The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun
Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run.
And when into chaos the systems are hurled, … Continue Reading …
The Leader to be # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
What shall the leader be in that great day
When we who sleep and dream that we are slaves
Shall wake and know that Liberty is ours? … Continue Reading …
The Little Bird # of Reflection
The father sits in his lonely room,
Outside sings a little bird.
But the shadows are laden with death and gloom, … Continue Reading …
The little go-cart #Poems Of Optimism
It was long, long ago that a soul like a flower
Unfolded, and blossomed, and passed in an hour.
It was long, long ago; and the memory seems … Continue Reading …
The Little White Hearse # of Sentiment
Somebody’s baby was buried to-day—
The empty white hearse from the grave rumbled back,
And the morning somehow seemed less smiling and gay … Continue Reading …
The London ‘Bobby’ # of Experience
Here in my cosy corner,
Before a blazing log,
I’m thinking of cold London … Continue Reading …
The Lost Garden # of Passion
There was a fair green garden sloping
From the south-east side of the mountain-ledge;
And the earliest tint of the dawn came groping … Continue Reading …
The Lost Land # of Pleasure
THERE is a story of a beauteous land,
Where fields were fertile and where flowers were bright;
Where tall towers glistened in the morning light, … Continue Reading …
The Masquerade # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Look in the eyes of trouble with a smile,
Extend your hand and do not be afraid.
’Tis but a friend who comes to masquerade. … Continue Reading …
The Master Hand # of Pleasure
IT is something too strange to understand,
How all the chords on the instrument,
Whether sorrowful, blithe, or grand, … Continue Reading …
The Meeting Of The Centuries # of Power
A curious vision on mine eyes unfurled
In the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,
Two Centuries meet, and sit down vis-à-vis … Continue Reading …
The men-made gods #Poems Of Optimism
Said the Kaiser’s god to the god of the Czar:
‘Hark, hark, how my people pray.
Their faith, methinks, is greater by far … Continue Reading …
The Mother-In-Law # of Pleasure
SHE was my dream’s fulfilment and my joy,
This lovely woman whom you call your wife.
You sported at your play, an idle boy, … Continue Reading …
The Musicians # of Reflection
The strings of my heart were strung by Pleasure,
And I laughed, when the music fell on my ear,
For he and Mirth played a joyful measure, … Continue Reading …
The Nameless # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Unnumbered gods may unremembered die;
A thousand creeds may perish and pass by;
Yet do I lift mine eyes to ONE on high. … Continue Reading …
The Need of the World # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I know the need of the world,
Though it would not have me know.
It would hide its sorrow deep, … Continue Reading …
The New Commandment # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I heard a strange voice in the distance calling
As from a star an echo might be falling. … Continue Reading …
The new Hawaiian girl # of Experience
Kamehameha First, of the Hawaiian Islands, conquered his foes in a great battle, driving them over the high mountain peak known as Pali—one of the famous scenic views of the world, … Continue Reading …
The Ocean Of Song # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In a land beyond sight or conceiving,
In a land where no blight is, no wrong,
No darkness, no graves, and no grieving, … Continue Reading …
The Old Moon In The New Moon’s Arms # of Love
The beautiful and slender young New Moon,
In trailing robes of pink and palest blue,
Swept close to Venus, and breathed low: “A boon … Continue Reading …
The Old Stage Queen # of Pleasure
BACK in the box by the curtains shaded,
She sits alone by the house unseen;
Her eye is dim, her cheek is faded, … Continue Reading …
The Old Wooden Cradle # Custer, and Other Poems
Good-bye to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle
The rude hand of Progress has thrust it aside.
No more to its motion o’er sleep’s fairy ocean, … Continue Reading …
The Optimist # Custer, and Other Poems
The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing
Or note enlivened the depressing wood,
A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stood … Continue Reading …
The Optimist # of Power
The fields were bleak and sodden.
Not a wing
Or note enlivened the depressing wood; … Continue Reading …
The Pæan of Peace # of Sentiment
With ever some wrong to be righting,
With self ever seeking for place,
The world has been striving and fighting … Continue Reading …
The Past # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Fling my past behind me, like a robe
Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date.
I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep … Continue Reading …
The Past # of life
I fling my past behind me like a robe
Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date.
I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep … Continue Reading …
The peace angel #Poems Of Optimism
Angel of Peace, the hounds of war,
Unleashed, are all abroad,
And war’s foul trade again is made … Continue Reading …
The pendulum #Poems Of Optimism
Bound hand and foot in the pit I lie,
And the wall about me is strong and high;
Stronger and higher it grows each day, … Continue Reading …
The People’s Favorite # of Love
God bless the hero of my song!
Six years the chieftain of our State!
We’ve held him, in our hearts, so long, … Continue Reading …
The Pessimist # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
The pessimistic locust, last to leaf,
Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief.
The Pilgrim Fathers # of Reflection
And now when poets are singing
Their song of olden days,
And now, when the land is ringing … Continue Reading …
The poet’s theme #Poems Of Optimism # of Power
Why should the poet of these pregnant times
Be asked to sing of war’s unholy crimes? … Continue Reading …
The Price he Paid # of Purpose
I said I would have my fling,
And do what a young man may;
And I didn’t believe a thing … Continue Reading …
The Punished # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Not they who know the awful gibbet’s anguish,
Not they who, while sad years go by them, in
The sunless cells of lonely prisons languish, … Continue Reading …
The Purpose # of Experience
Over and over the task was set,
Over and over I slighted the work,
But ever and alway I knew that yet … Continue Reading …
The Queen’s Last Ride # of Power
The Queen is taking a drive to-day,
They have hung with purple the carriage-way,
They have dressed with purple the royal track … Continue Reading …
The Question # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Beside us in our seeking after pleasures,
Through all our restless striving after fame,
Through all our search for worldly gains and treasures, … Continue Reading …
The Radiant Christ # of Experience
Arise, O master artist of the age,
And paint the picture which at once shall be
Immortal art and bless’d prophecy. … Continue Reading …
The Reason # of Power
Do you know what moves the tides
As they swing from low to high?
’Tis the love, love, love, … Continue Reading …
The Revealing Angels # of Purpose
Suddenly and without warning they came—
The Revealing Angels came.
Suddenly and simultaneously, through city streets, … Continue Reading …
The Revolt of Vashti # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Is this the way to greet thy loving spouse,
But now returned from scenes of blood and strife?
I pray thee raise thy veil and let me gaze … Continue Reading …
The River # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
I am a river flowing from God’s sea
Through devious ways. He mapped my course for me;
I cannot change it; mine alone the toil … Continue Reading …
The River of Sleep # of Purpose
There are curious isles in the River of Sleep,
Curious isles without number.
We’ll visit them all as we leisurely creep … Continue Reading …
The Room Beneath The Rafters # of Pleasure, # of Reflection
SOMETIMES when I have dropped to sleep,
Draped in a soft luxurious gloom,
Across my drowsing mind will creep … Continue Reading …
The Saddest Hour # of Passion
The saddest hour of anguish and of loss
Is not that season of supreme despair
When we can find no least light anywhere … Continue Reading …
The Salt Sea-wind # of Sentiment
When Venus, mother and maker of blisses,
Rose out of the billows, large-limbed, and fair,
She stood on the sands and blew sweet kisses … Continue Reading …
The Same Old Strain # of Love
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,
A maxim I long have believed in, is true.
Each day I grow firmer in this, my belief, … Continue Reading …
The Sea-Breeze And The Scarf # of Pleasure
HUNG on the casement that looked o’er the main,
Fluttered a scarf of blue;
And a gay, bold breeze paused to flatter and tease … Continue Reading …
The second coming #Poems Of Optimism
How will Christ come back again,
How will He be seen, and where,
Where His chosen way? … Continue Reading …
The secret of prayer #Poems Of Optimism
This is the secret of all prayers
That in God’s sight have worth,
They must be uttered from the stairs … Continue Reading …
The Silent Tragedy # of Purpose
The deepest tragedies of life are not
Put into books, or acted on the stage.
Nay, they are lived in silence, by tense hearts … Continue Reading …
The Sonnet # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land,
A temple by the muses set apart;
A perfect structure of consummate art, … Continue Reading …
The Soul’s Farewell To The Body # of Love, # of Pleasure
So we must part forever. And although
I long have beat my wings and cried to go
Free from your narrow limits and control, … Continue Reading …
The South # of Pleasure
A QUEEN of indolence and idle grace,
Robed in the vestments of a costly gown,
She turns the languor of her lovely face … Continue Reading …
The Speech Of Silence # of Passion
The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us;
I know thou livest, and thou lovest me,
And yet I wish some white ship would come sailing … Continue Reading …
The Spur # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I asked the rock beside the road what joy existence lent.
It answered, ‘For a million years my heart has been content.’ … Continue Reading …
The statue #Poems Of Optimism, # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
A granite rock in the mountain side
Gazed on the world and was satisfied.
It watched the centuries come and go, … Continue Reading …
The Story # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
They met each other in the glade–
She lifted up her eyes;
Alack the day! Alack the maid! … Continue Reading …
The Structure # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Upon the wreckage of thy yesterday
Design the structure of to-morrow. Lay
Strong corner stones of purpose, and prepare … Continue Reading …
The Summons # of Love
Some day, when the golden glory
Of June is over the earth,
And the birds are singing together … Continue Reading …
The Superwoman # of Purpose
What will the superwoman be, of whom we sing—
She who is coming over the dim border
Of Far To-morrow, after earth’s disorder … Continue Reading …
The sword #Poems Of Optimism
Amidst applauding cheers I won a prize.
A cynic watched me, with ironic eyes;
An open foe, in open hatred, sneered; … Continue Reading …
The Tendril’s Fate # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Under the snow, in the dark and the cold,
A pale little sprout was humming;
Sweetly it sang, ’neath the frozen mould, … Continue Reading …
The Things that Count # of Purpose
Now, dear, it isn’t the bold things,
Great deeds of valour and might,
That count the most in the summing up of life at the end of the day. … Continue Reading …
The Tides # of Experience
Oh, vain is the stern protesting
Of winds, when the tide runs high;
And vainly the deep-sea waters … Continue Reading …
The Tides # of Power
Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.
On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight,
But back on the incoming waves it may ride … Continue Reading …
The Tiger # of Passion
In the still jungle of the senses lay
A tiger soundly sleeping, till one day
A bold young hunter chanced to come that way. … Continue Reading …
The Times # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
The times are not degenerate. Man’s faith
Mounts higher than of old. No crumbling creed
Can take from the immortal soul the need … Continue Reading …
The tower-room # of Experience
There is a room serene and fair,
All palpitant with light and air;
Free from the dust, world’s noise and fuss— … Continue Reading …
The Traveled Man # Custer, and Other Poems
Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out,
The ships all sunk among the coral strands.
I am so very weary, yea so worn out, … Continue Reading …
The Traveller # of Power
Reply to Rudyard Kipling’s “He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Who travels alone with his eyes on the heights,
Though he laughs in the day time oft weeps in the nights; … Continue Reading …
The Traveller # of Purpose
Bristling with steeples, high against the hill,
Like some great thistle in the rosy dawn
It stood; the Town-of-Christian-Churches, stood. … Continue Reading …
The Trinity # of Purpose
Much may be done with the world we are in,
Much with the race to better it;
We can unfetter it, … Continue Reading …
The Trio # of Passion
We love but once. The great gold orb of light
From dawn to even-tide doth cast his ray;
But the full splendor of his perfect might … Continue Reading …
The Trip to Mars # of Experience
Oh! by and by we shall hear the cry,
‘This is the way to Mars.’
Come take a trip, on the morning Ship; … Continue Reading …
The True Knight # of Pleasure
WE sigh above historic pages,
Brave with the deeds of courtly men,
And wish those peers of middle ages … Continue Reading …
The Tryst # Custer, and Other Poems
Just when all hope had perished in my soul,
And balked desire made havoc with my mind,
My cruel Ladye suddenly grew kind, … Continue Reading …
The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square # Custer, and Other Poems
You know that oasis, fresh and fair
In the city desert, as Greeley square? … Continue Reading …
The Two Ages # of Sentiment
On great cathedral window I have seen
A summer sunset swoon and sink away,
Lost in the splendours of immortal art. … Continue Reading …
The Two Glasses # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim,
On a rich man’s table, rim to rim.
One was ruddy, and red as blood, … Continue Reading …
The Unattained # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
A vision beauteous as the morn,
With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming,
Slow glided o’er a field late shorn … Continue Reading …
The Undertone # of Purpose
When I was very young I used to feel the dark despairs of youth;
Out of my little griefs I would invent great tragedies and woes;
Not only for myself, but for all those I held most dear … Continue Reading …
The Undiscovered Country # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Man has explored all countries and all lands,
And made his own the secrets of each clime.
Now, ere the world has fully reached its prime, … Continue Reading …
The Universal Route # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
As we journey along, with a laugh and a song,
We see, on youth’s flower-decked slope,
Like a beacon of light, shining fair on the sight, … Continue Reading …
The Unwed Mother to the Wife # of Purpose
I had been almost happy for an hour,
Lost to the world that knew me in the park
Among strange faces; while my little girl … Continue Reading …
The Valley of Fear # of Purpose
In the journey of life, as we travel along
To the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,
You may stumble at times into Roadways of Wrong, … Continue Reading …
The Voice # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I dreamed a Voice, of one God-authorised,
Cried loudly thro’ the world, ‘Disarm! Disarm!’
And there was consternation in the camps; … Continue Reading …
The Voice of the Voiceless # of Experience
I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear … Continue Reading …
The Voices of the City # of Experience
The voices of the city—merged and swelled
Into a mighty dissonance of sound,
And from the medley rose these broken strains … Continue Reading …
The Voices Of The People # of Power
Oh! I hear the people calling through the day time and the night time,
They are calling, they are crying for the coming of the right time.
It behooves you, men and women, it behooves you to be heeding, … Continue Reading …
The Voluptuary # Maurine and Other Poems
Oh, I am sick of love reciprocated,
Of hopes fulfilled, ambitions gratified.
Life holds no thing to be anticipated, … Continue Reading …
The Watcher # of Sentiment
She gave her soul and body for a carriage,
And livened lackey with a vacant grin,
And all the rest—house, lands—and called it marriage: … Continue Reading …
The Way # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join … Continue Reading …
TThe Way # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
However certain of the way thou art,
Take not the self-appointed leader’s part.
Follow no man, and by no man be led, … Continue Reading …
The Way Of It # of Pleasure
THIS is the way of it, wide world over,
One is beloved, and one is the lover,
One gives and the other receives. … Continue Reading …
The Weed # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
A weed is but an unloved flower!
Go dig, and prune, and guide, and wait,
Until it learns its high estate, … Continue Reading …
The Well-born # of Purpose
So many people—people—in the world;
So few great souls, love ordered, well begun,
In answer to the fertile mother need! … Continue Reading …
The Wheel Of The Breast # of Passion
Through rivers of veins on the nameless quest
The tide of my life goes hurriedly sweeping,
Till it reaches that curious wheel o’ the breast, … Continue Reading …
The White Man # of Experience
Wherever the white man’s feet have trod
(Oh far does the white man stray)
A bold road rifles the virginal sod, … Continue Reading …
The Wild Blue-Bells # of Love
Came a bouquet from the city,
Fragrant, rich and debonair–
Sweet carnation and geranium, … Continue Reading …
The Winds of Fate #Poems Of Optimism
One ship drives east and another drives west,
With the self-same winds that blow,
’Tis the set of the sails … Continue Reading …
The Wish # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Should some great angel say to me to-morrow,
“Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start,
But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow, … Continue Reading …
The Women # of Reflection
See the women–pallid women, of our land!
See them fainting, dying, dead, on every hand!
See them sinking ‘neath a weight … Continue Reading …
The Word # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Oh, a word is a gem, or a stone, or a song,
Or a flame, or a two-edged sword;
Or a rose in bloom, or a sweet perfume, … Continue Reading …
The Worker and the Work # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
In what I do I note the marring flaw,
The imperfections of the work I see;
Nor am I one who rather do than be, … Continue Reading …
The World # of Pleasure
WITH noiseless steps good goes its way;
The earth shakes under evil’s tread.
We hear the uproar, and ’tis said, … Continue Reading…
The World Grows Better # of Power
Oh! the earth is full of sinning
And of trouble and of woe,
But the devil makes an inning … Continue Reading …
The World-child # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
At times I am the mother of the world;
And mine seem all its sorrows, and its fears.
That rose, which in each mother-heart is curled, … Continue Reading …
The World’s Need # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind, … Continue Reading …
The Year # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times? … Continue Reading …
The Year Outgrows The Spring # of Passion
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,
And clasps the summer with a new delight,
Yet wearied, leaves her languors and her heat … Continue Reading …
The Yellow-covered Almanac # of Sentiment
I left the farm when mother died and changed my place of dwelling
To daughter Susie’s stylish house right on the city street:
And there was them before I came that sort of scared me, telling … Continue Reading …
The Younger Born # of Purpose
The modern English-speaking young girl is the astonishment of the world and the despair of the older generation. Nothing like her has ever been seen or heard before. … Continue Reading …
There Comes A Time # of Pleasure
THERE comes a time to every mortal being,
Whate’er his station or his lot in life,
When his sad soul yearns for the final freeing … Continue Reading …
There is no Death, There are no Dead # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
‘There is no death, there are no dead.’
From zone to zone, from sphere to sphere,
The souls of all who pass from here … Continue Reading …
Thimble Islands # of Pleasure
BETWEEN the shore and the distant sky-lands,
Where a ship’s dim shape seems etched on space,
There lies this cluster of lovely islands, … Continue Reading …
This is my task #Poems Of Optimism
When the whole world resounds with rude alarms
Of warring arms,
When God’s good earth, from border unto border … Continue Reading …
Thought-Magnets # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
With each strong thought, with every earnest longing
For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul,
Invisible vast forces are set thronging … Continue Reading …
Thoughts # of Sentiment
Thoughts do not need the wings of words
To fly to any goal.
Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, … Continue Reading …
Three And One # of Pleasure
SOMETIMES she seems so helpless and so mild,
So full of sweet unreason and so weak,
So prone to some capricious whim or freak; … Continue Reading …
Three Friends # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Of all the blessings which my life has known,
I value most, and most praise God for three:
Want, Loneliness, and Pain, those comrades true, … Continue Reading …
Three Souls # of Purpose
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,
And gained permission of the Guard to wait.
Barred from the bliss of Paradise by sin, … Continue Reading …
Three Things # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Know this, ye restless denizens of earth,
Know this, ye seekers after joy and mirth,
Three things there are, eternal in their worth. … Continue Reading …
Three-Fold # of Love
Somewhere I’ve read a thoughtful mind’s reflection:
“All perfect things are three-fold”; and I know
Our love has this rare symbol of perfection; … Continue Reading …
Through Dim Eyes # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder?
I see not the grace that I used to see
In the meadow-brook whose song was so glad, or … Continue Reading …
Through Tears # of Power, # Maurine and Other Poems
An artist toiled over his pictures;
He laboured by night and by day,
He struggled for glory and honour … Continue Reading …
Through The Valley # of Passion
As I came through the Valley of Despair,
As I came through the valley, on my sight,
More awful than the darkness of the night, … Continue Reading …
Thursday # Maurine and Other Poems
So well the week has sped, hast thou a friend
Go spend an hour in converse. It will lend … Continue Reading …
Thy Ship # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Hadst thou a ship, in whose vast hold lay stored
The priceless riches of all climes and lands,
Say, wouldst thou let it float upon the seas … Continue Reading …
Time And Love # of Passion
Time flies. The swift hours hurry by
And speed us on to untried ways;
New seasons ripen, perish, die, … Continue Reading …
Time Enough # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I know it is early morning,
And hope is calling aloud,
And your heart is afire with Youth’s desire … Continue Reading …
Time’s Defeat # of Experience
Time has made conquest of so many things
That once were mine. Swift-footed, eager youth
That ran to meet the years; bold brigand health, … Continue Reading …
Time’s Gaze # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Time looked me in the eyes while passing by
The milestone of the year. That piercing gaze
Was both an accusation and reproach. … Continue Reading …
Tired # of Passion
I am tired to-night, and something,
The wind maybe, or the rain,
Or the cry of a bird in the copse outside, … Continue Reading …
To An Astrologer # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Nay, seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,
Nor question that the tenor of my life,
Past, present, and the future, is revealed … Continue Reading …
To Another Woman’s Baby # of Sentiment
I list your prattle, baby boy,
And hear your pattering feet
With feelings more of pain than joy … Continue Reading …
To Marry Or Not To Marry? # of life, # of Cheer
Mother says, “Be in no hurry,
Marriage oft means care and worry.” … Continue Reading …
To the teachers of the young #Poems Of Optimism
How large thy task, O teacher of the young,
To take the ravelled threads by parents flung … Continue Reading …
To the West # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Not to the crowded East,
Where, in a well-worn groove,
Like the harnessed wheel of a great machine, … Continue Reading …
To the women of Australia #Poems Of Optimism
A toast to the splendid daughters
Of the New World over the waters,
A world that is great as new; … Continue Reading …
To-day # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I love this age of energy and force,
Expectantly I greet each pregnant hour;
Emerging from the all-creative source, … Continue Reading …
Transformation # Custer, and Other Poems
She waited in a rose-hued room;
A wanton-hearted creature she,
But beautiful and bright to see … Continue Reading …
Transplanted # of Reflection
Where the grim old “Mount of Lamentation”
Lifts up its summit like some great dome,
I list for the voices of Inspiration … Continue Reading …
True Brotherhood # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
God, what a world, if men in street and mart
Felt that same kinship of the human heart … Continue Reading …
True Culture # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
The highest culture is to speak no ill,
The best reformer is the man whose eyes
Are quick to see all beauty and all worth; … Continue Reading …
Tuesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Another morning’s banners are unfurled—
Another day looks smiling on the world. … Continue Reading …
Turquoise # of Sentiment
A baby went to heaven while it slept,
And, waking, missed its mother’s arms, and wept. … Continue Reading …
Twilight Thoughts # of Reflection
The God of the day has vanished,
The light from the hills has fled,
And the hand of an unseen artist, … Continue Reading …
Twin-Born # of Passion
He who possesses virtue at its best,
Or greatness in the true sense of the word,
Has one day started even with that herd … Continue Reading …
Two # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
One leaned on velvet cushions like a queen—
To see him pass, the hero of an hour,
Whom men called great. She bowed with languid mien, … Continue Reading …
Two Ghosts # of Experience
Two dead men boarded a spectral ship
In the astral Port of Space;
On that ghost-filled barque, they met in the dark, … Continue Reading …
Two Loves # of Pleasure
THE woman he loved, while he dreamed of her,
Danced on till the stars grew dim,
But alone with her heart, from the world apart, … Continue Reading …
Two men # of Experience
So much one thought about the life beyond
He did not drain the waters of his pond;
And when death laid his children ’neath the sod … Continue Reading …
Two Nights # Custer, and Other Poems
One night was full of rapture and delight—
Of reunited arms and swooning kisses,
And all the unnamed and unnumbered blisses … Continue Reading …
Two Prayers # of Pleasure
DEAR, when you lift your gentle heart in prayer,
Ask God to send His angel Death to me
Long ere He comes to you, if that may be. … Continue Reading …
Two Roses # of Sentiment
A humble wild-rose, pink and slender,
Was plucked and placed in a bright bouquet,
Beside a Jacqueminot’s royal splendour, … Continue Reading …
Two sat down # of Cheer
Two sat down in the morning time,
One to sing and one to spin.
All men listened the song sublime— … Continue Reading …
Two Sinners # of Pleasure
THERE was a man, it was said one time,
Who went astray in his youthful prime.
Can the brain keep cool and the heart keep quiet … Continue Reading …
Two Sunsets # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In the fair morning of his life,
When his pure heart lay in his breast,
Panting, with all that wild unrest … Continue Reading …
Two Women # of Sentiment
I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winter waste,
Stainless ever in act and thought … Continue Reading …
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Unanswered Prayers # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
Like some schoolmaster, kind in being stern,
Who hears the children crying o’er their slates
And calling, “Help me, master!” yet helps not, … Continue Reading …
Unconquered # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
However skilled and strong art thou, my foe,
However fierce is thy relentless hate,
Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim, and straight … Continue Reading …
Uncontrolled # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
The mighty forces of mysterious space
Are one by one subdued by lordly man.
The awful lightning that for eons ran … Continue Reading …
Understood # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
I value more than I despise
My tendency to sin,
Because it helps me sympathise … Continue Reading …
Unrest # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
In the youth of the year, when the birds were building,
When the green was showing on tree and hedge,
And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding … Continue Reading …
Unsatisfied #Poems Of Optimism
The bird flies home to its young;
The flower folds its leaves about an opening bud;
And in my neighbour’s house there is the cry of a child. … Continue Reading …
Until the Night # of Reflection
Over the ocean of life’s commotion
We sail till the night comes on.
Sail and sail in a tiny boat, … Continue Reading …
Upon The Sand # of Passion
All love that has not friendship for its base
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Though brave its walls as any in the land, … Continue Reading …
Uselessness # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all
To live beyond my greater self; to see
My faculties decaying, as the tree … Continue Reading …
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Vampires # of Reflection
Lo! here’s another corpse exhumed!
Another Poet disinterred!
Sensation cried, “Dig up the grave, … Continue Reading …
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Wail of an Old-timer # of Sentiment
Each new invention doubles our worries an’ our troubles,
These scientific fellows are spoilin’ of our land;
With motor, wire, an’ cable, now’-days we’re scarcely able … Continue Reading …
War Mothers # of Purpose
In the old times of peace we went our ways,
Through proper days
Of little joys and tasks. Lonely at times, … Continue Reading …
Warned # of Love
They stood at the garden gate.
By the lifting of a lid
She might have read her fate … Continue Reading …
Warning # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright; … Continue Reading …
Was, Is, and Yet-to-be # of Sentiment
Was, Is, and Yet-to-Be
Were chatting over a cup of tea. … Continue Reading …
We must send them out to play #Poems Of Optimism
Now much there is need of doing must not be done in haste;
But slowly and with patience, as a jungle is changed to a town.
But listen, my brothers, listen; it is not always so: … Continue Reading …
We Two # of Power
We two make home of any place we go;
We two find joy in any kind of weather;
Or if the earth is clothed in bloom or snow, … Continue Reading …
Wednesday # Maurine and Other Poems
Half way unto the end—the week’s high noon.
The morning hours do speed away so soon! … Continue Reading …
What Gain? # of life, # of Cheer, # Maurine and Other Poems
Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair,
While beauty lingers, laughing, in thine eyes,
Ere thy young heart shall meet the stranger, “Care,” … Continue Reading …
What happens? # of Cheer
When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Of intricate and interlacèd veins
Shoot swift delights that border on keen pains: … Continue Reading …
What Have You Done? # of Purpose
What have you done, and what are you doing with life, O Man!
O Average Man of the world—
Average Man of the Christian world we call civilised? … Continue Reading …
What is Right Living? # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
What is right living? Just to do your best
When worst seems easier. To bear the ills
Of daily life with patient cheerfulness … Continue Reading …
What Love Is # of Pleasure
LOVE is the center and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things—’tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense … Continue Reading …
What Shall We Do? # of Passion
Here now forevermore our lives must part.
My path leads there, and yours another way.
What shall we do with this fond love, dear heart? … Continue Reading …
What they saw #Poems Of Optimism, # of Purpose
I saw the unloved and unhappy old, waiting for slow delinquent death to come.
Pale little children toiling for the rich, in rooms where sunlight is ashamed to go. … Continue Reading …
What We Need # of Power # of life
What does our country need? No armies standing
With sabres gleaming ready for the fight;
Not increased navies, skilful and commanding, … Continue Reading …
What We Needed # Maurine and Other Poems
What does our country need? Not armies standing
With sabres gleaming ready for the fight.
Not increased navies, skillful and commanding, … Continue Reading …
What would it be? # of Purpose
Now what were the words of Jesus,
And what would He pause and say,
If we were to meet in home or street, … Continue Reading …
Whatever Is—Is Best # of Pleasure, # of Reflection
I KNOW as my life grows older,
And mine eyes have clearer sight—
That under each rank wrong, somewhere … Continue Reading …
When # of Reflection
I dwell in the western inland,
Afar from the sounding sea,
But I seem to hear it sobbing … Continue Reading …
When baby Souls Sail Out # of Sentiment
When from our mortal vision
Grown men and women go
To sail strange fields Elysian … Continue Reading …
When I Am Dead # of Reflection
When I am dead, if some chastened one,
Seeing the “item,” or hearing it said
That my play is over and my part done, … Continue Reading …
When Love is Lost # of Purpose
When love is lost, the day sets towards the night,
Albeit the morning sun may still be bright,
And not one cloud-ship sails across the sky. … Continue Reading …
When The Regiment Came Back # of Power
All the uniforms were blue, all the swords were bright and new,
When the regiment went marching down the street,
All the men were hale and strong as they proudly moved along, … Continue Reading …
When You Go Away # of Love
When you go away, my friend,
When we say our last good-bye,
Then the summer time will end, … Continue Reading …
Wherefore? # of Passion
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,
A healed wound opened, or the past revived?
Last night in my deep sleep I dreamed of you; … Continue Reading …
Which Are You? # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say. … Continue Reading …
Who is a Christian? # of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Who is a Christian in this Christian land
Of many churches and of lofty spires?
Not he who sits in soft upholstered pews … Continue Reading …
Why The Spring Is Late # of Love
The spring time is deaf to our pleading,
The meadows are brown as can be.
The hilltops are bleak and unlovely, … Continue Reading …
Will # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems, # of Cheer
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul. … Continue Reading …
Will # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word “environment,” … Continue Reading …
Winter Rain # of Cheer
Falling upon the frozen world last
I heard the slow beat of the Winter rain—
Poor foolish drops, down-dripping all in vain; … Continue Reading …
Winter Rain # of life, # Maurine and Other Poems
Falling upon the frozen world last night
I heard the slow beat of the Winter rain–
Poor foolish drops, down-dripping all in vain; … Continue Reading …
Wishes for a little girl # of Cheer
What would I ask the kindly fates to give
To crown her life, if I could have my way?
My strongest wishes would be negative, … Continue Reading …
Wishing # of Power
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions, … Continue Reading …
Woman # of Experience
Strange are the ways that her feet have trod
Since first she was set in the path of duty,
Finished and fair by the hand of God, … Continue Reading …
Woman # of Pleasure
GIVE us that grand word “woman” once again,
And let’s have done with “lady”: one’s a term
Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, … Continue Reading …
Woman To Man # of Power
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,
How could the hand be enemy of the arm,
Or seed and sod be rivals! How could light … Continue Reading …
Womanhood # of Power
She must be honest, both in thought and deed,
Of generous impulse, and above all greed;
Not seeking praise, or place, or power, or pelf, … Continue Reading …
Words # of Power
Words are great forces in the realm of life:
Be careful of their use. Who talks of hate,
Of poverty, of sickness, but sets rife … Continue Reading …
Worldly Wisdom # of Reflection
If it were in my dead Past’s power
To let my Present bask
In some lost pleasure for an hour, … Continue Reading …
Worth while # of Cheer
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile … Continue Reading …
You And To-Day # of Power
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun. … Continue Reading …
You Never Can Tell # of Power # Custer, and Other Poems
You never can tell when you send a word,
Like an arrow shot from a bow
By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, … Continue Reading …
You Will Forget Me # of Passion
You will forget me. The years are so tender,
They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep;
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor … Continue Reading …
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