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How slight a thing may set one's fancy driftingUpon the dead sea of the Past!--A view--Sometimes an odor--or a rooster liftingA far-off 'OOH!..

Just to be good--This is enough--enough!O we who find sin's billows wild and rough,Do we not feel how more than any goldWould be the blameless life..

IWinter withoutAnd warmth within;The winds may shoutAnd the storm begin;The snows may packAt the window pane,And the skies grow black,And the sun..

My dear old friends--It jes beats all,The way you write a letterSo's ever' _last_ line beats the _first_,And ever' _next_-un's better!--W'y, ever'..

'They ain't much 'tale' about it!' Noey said.--'K'tawby grapes wuz gittin' good-n-redI rickollect; and Tubb Kingry and me'Ud kindo' browse round..

When Little Claude was naughty wunstAt dinner-time, an' saidHe won't say '_Thank you_' to his Ma,She maked him go to bedAn' stay two hours an' not..

We got up a Christmas-doin'sLast Christmas Eve--Kindo' dimonstration'At I railly believeGive more satisfaction--Take it up and down--Than ary..

1The Hired Man TalksThere's old man Willards; an' his wife;An' Marg'et-- S'repty's sister--; an'There's me-- an' I'm the hired man;An' Tomps McClure..

But yesterday!...O blooms of May,And summer roses--Where-away?O stars above,And lips of loveAnd all the honeyed sweets thereof!O lad and lassAnd..

They walk here with us, hand-in-hand;We gossip, knee-by-knee;They tell us all that they have planned--Of all their joys to be,--And, laughing, leave..

When country roads begin to thawIn mottled spots of damp and dust,And fences by the margin drawAlong the frosty crustTheir graphic silhouettes, I..

O it was but a dream I hadWhile the musician played!--And here the sky, and here the gladOld ocean kissed the glade--And here the laughing ripples..

My father's halls, so rich and rare,Are desolate and bleak and bare;My father's heart and halls are one,Since I, their life and light, am gone.O..

O we go down to sea in ships--But Hope remains behind,And Love, with laughter on his lips,And Peace, of passive mind;While out across the deeps of..

The winds have talked with him confidingly;The trees have whispered to him; and the nightHath held him gently as a mother might,And taught him all..

O love is like an untamed steed!--So hot of heart and wild of speed,And with fierce freedom so in love,The desert is not vast enough,With all its..

There's a space for good to bloom inEvery heart of man or woman,--And however wild or human,Or however brimmed with gall,Never heart may beat without..

Let us forget. What matters it that weOnce reigned o'er happy realms of long-ago,And talked of love, and let our voices low,And ruled for some brief..

Just drifting on together--He and I--As through the balmy weatherOf JulyDrift two thistle-tufts imbeddedEach in each--by zephyrs wedded--Touring..

The maple strews the embers of its leavesO'er the laggard swallows nestled 'neath the eaves;And the moody cricket falters in his cry--Baby-bye!--And..

'He shall sleep unscathed of thievesWho loves Allah and believes.'Thus heard one who shared the tent,In the far-off Orient,Of the Bedouin ben..

O soul of mine, look out and seeMy bride, my bride that is to be!Reach out with mad, impatient hands,And draw aside futurityAs one might draw a veil..

Barefooted boys scud up the streetOr skurry under sheltering sheds;And schoolgirl faces, pale and sweet,Gleam from the shawls about their heads.Doors..

Sometimes I think 'at Parents doesThings ist about as bad as _us_--Wite 'fore our vurry eyes, at that!Fer one time Pa he scold' my Ma'Cause he can't..

Even in such a scene of senseless playThe children were surprised one summer-dayBy a strange man who called across the fence,Inquiring for their..