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THE poor earth was so winter-marred,Harried by storm so long,It seemed no spring could mend her,No tardy sunshine renderAtonement for such wrong.Snow..

IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared within..

GRAY gulls that wheeled and dipped and roseWhere tossing crests like Alpine snowsWould shimmer and entice;A stormy petrel, Judas soul,Dark wanderer..

White wing, white wing,Lily of the air,What word dost bring,On whose errand fare?Red word, red word,Snowy plumes abhor.I, Christ's own bird,Do the..

THE night was loud with tumult; trees were tornSheer from their roots by the delirious wind;In some waste dreamland wandered all forlornA smitten..

THE best of life, what is it but white moments?Those swift illuminations when we seeThe flying shadows on the fragrant meadowsAs God beholds them..

WHEN the Millennium comesOnly the kings will fight,While the princes beat the drums,And the queens in aprons white,Arnica bottle in hand,Watch their..

ONE summer day, gleaming in memory,We drove, my Joy and I,Through fragrant hawthorn lanesGold-fringed with wisps of ryeBrushed off the harvest..

'MOTHER! Mother!' he called as he fellIn the horror thereOf a bursting shellThat strewed red flesh on the air.Far away over sea and land:The knitting..

NOT ours to clamor shame on you,Nor fling a bitter blame on you,Nor brand a cruel name on you,That evil name of treason,You who have heard the ivory..

’T IS the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather,For a bird to trill and warble, all his wee red breast a-swell.I ’ve a secret. You..

WHAT fragrant-footed comerIs stepping o’er my head?Behold, my queen! the Summer!Who deems her warriors dead.Now rise, ye knights of many fights,From..

(Switzerland)BEHOLD a temple builded not by hands.Columns of mist, all shimmering with sun,Stream heavenward from the deep-cut vales that runBetween..

Not the Prussian, the forsworn,By whose fury overborne,Martyred Belgium, you lieBruised with all injury.Through your peace red paths he..

THE fragrant air is full of down,Of floating, fleecy thingsFrom some forgotten fairy townWhere all the folk wear wings.Or else the snowflakes, soft..

OUR neighbor of the undefended bound,Friend of the hundred years of peace, our kin,Fellow adventurer on the enchanted groundOf the New World, must..

THE cup, the ruby cupWhence anguish drips,At last is lifted upAgainst our lips.Though we, till seas run dry,Your lovers are,How can we put it by,Red..

THESE August nights, hushed but for drowsy peepOf fledglings, tremble with a strange vibration,A sound too far for hearing, sullen, dire,Shaking the..

WHEN Cap'n Tom comes home, and his sea chestIs opened, oh, the shells that rainbow foamTossed on far shores, by us to be possessedWhen Cap'n Tom..

SPINDRIFT white shall her victims standOn the ivory quay, untrodBy living feet, when she nears Ghoststrand,To point her out to God.The Babies Of The..

BRIGHT valor, smitten by so shrewd a blow,Drooping thy golden wing like wounded plover,What great, grieved faces o'er the battle hover,Patriot..

'The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian stone; for who toucheth it is exempted from griefe.'The fairies to his cradle came to play their..

A stranger, schooled to gentle arts,He stept before the curious throng;His path into our waiting heartsAlready paved by song.Full well we knew his..

BESIDE the country road with truant graceWild carrot lifts its circles of white lace.From vines whose interwoven branches drapeThe old stone walls..

THE sunset, woven of soft lightsAnd tender colors, lingers late,As looking back on all day's dreary plights,Compassionate;— The foolish day of hopes..