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I. In South AfricaOver the lonesome African plainThe stars look down, like eyes of the slain.A bumping ride across gullies and ruts,Now a grumble and..

IOH, what is Christ, that we should call on Him?Wasted Armenia, in her utter woe,Dies in the mocking desert, calling so.Hyænas tear her children limb..

THE darkest wood that the north-wind stingsHath its balsamum and its silverlings,Its violet interspace.The bitterest sea that the wan moon knowsHath..

Must I, who walk alone,Come on it still,This Puck of plantsThe wise would do away with,The sunshine slantsTo play with,Our wee, gold-dusty flower..

The first faint dawn was flushing up the skiesWhen, dreamland still bewildering mine eyes,I looked out to the oak that, winter-long,-- a winter wild..

How long, O Prince of Peace, how long? We sicken of the shameOf this wild war that wraps the world, a roaring dragon-flameFed on earth's glorious..

A PRAISE beyond all other praise of oursThis nation holds in jealous trust for himWho may approve himself, even in these dim,Swift days of destiny..

The battle will not ceaseTill once again on those white steeds ye ride,O heaven-descended Twins,Before humanity's bewildered host.Our javelinsFly..

THE weazen planet Mercury,Whose song is done,— Rash heart that drew too nearHis dazzling lord the Sun!—Forgets that life was dear,So shriveled now..

GALLANTLY swung the old carpenter up to his door,Drums and fifes in his tread,But softly he crossed the braided mats on the floor,Gently he stroked..

'APOLLO laughs,' the proverb tells,Far echo of old oracles,A Delphic waif, —'Once in the year,Apollo laughs.' O laughter clearAs sunshine, blithe as..

THOU whose sunny heart outglowsArctic snows;Russia's hearth-fire, cherishingCourage almost perishing;Torch that beacons overseaTill a world is at thy..

THE leaves and tassels of the oakWere golden-green with May,Pavilion whence forever brokeSome angel roundelay.A carol like a glory cameFrom topmost..

What will you give to a barefoot lass,Morning with breath like wine?Wade, bare feet! In my wide morassStarry marigolds shine.Alms, sweet Noon, for a..

SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,Tiny bones that strew the sand of silent places,— This upon our..

I HEARD him preach in Oxford years ago,A snowy-haired and tender-faced apostle.I watched the beech against the window blow,And listened to the..

WE bore them their own wild heatherAnd ash-boughs jeweled red,There where they sleep together,Greatest of Norway's dead.More than the hush of..

COLOSSAL orb of space,Sparkling with diamondOf countless star on star,All whirling with wild graceIn their enwoven danceIllimitably far,What lies..

Grim stones whose gray lips keep your secret well,Our hands that touch you touch an ancient terror,An ancient woe, colossal citadelOf some fierce..

OUR blue sierras shone serene, sublime,When ghostly shapes came crowding up the air,Shadowing the landscape with some vast despair;And all was..

RED, white, blue, the flag that leads us on,Stripes as red as blood well shed by many a hero gone.Now 'tis ours to storm the towers of tyranny and..

And what of thee, O Lincoln's Land? What gloomIs darkening above the Sunset Sea?Vowed Champion of Liberty, deplumeThy war-crest, bow thy knee,Before..

The day was hotter than words can tell,So hot the jelly-fish wouldn't jell.The halibut went all to butter,And the catfish had only force to utterA..

WHAT song is in the sap of this brave oak-treeThat to the north-star faces,Ravened each June by caterpillar massesTill all its leaves are laces,Poor..

1899Who would trust England, let him lift his eyesTo Nelson, columned o'er Trafalgar Square,Her hieroglyph of duty, written whereThe roar of traffic..