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Marquesan MannersI. THE PRIEST'S VIGILIn all the land of the tribe was neither fish nor fruit,And the deepest pit of popoi stood empty to the..

THE broad sun,The bright day:White sailsOn the blue bay:The far-farersDraw away.Light the firesAnd close the door.To the old homes,To the loved..

When the grass was closely mown,Walking on the lawn alone,In the turf a hole I foundAnd hid a soldier underground.Spring and daisies came..

The friendly cow all red and white,I love with all my heart:She gives me cream with all her might,To eat with apple-tart.She wanders lowing here and..

THE cock's clear voice into the clearer airWhere westward far I roam,Mounts with a thrill of hope,Falls with a sigh of home.A rural sentry, he from..

IF I have faltered more or lessIn my great task of happiness;If I have moved among my raceAnd shown no glorious morning face;If beams from happy..

CLINKUM-CLANK in the rain they ride,Down by the braes and the grey sea-side;Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn,Weary fa' their horse-shoe-airn!Loud on..

THE angler rose, he took his rod,He kneeled and made his prayers to God.The living God sat overhead:The angler tripped, the eels were fed

TEMPEST tossed and sore afflicted, sin defiled and care oppressed,Come to me, all ye that labour; come, and I will give ye rest.Fear no more, O..

YES, friend, I own these tales of ArabiaSmile not, as smiled their flawless originals,Age-old but yet untamed, for agesPass and the magic is..

Every night my prayers I say,And get my dinner every day;And every day that I've been good,I get an orange after food.The child that is not clean and..

SWALLOWS travel to and fro,And the great winds come and go,And the steady breezes blow,Bearing perfume, bearing love.Breezes hasten, swallows..

Great is the sun, and wide he goesThrough empty heaven with repose;And in the blue and glowing daysMore thick than rain he showers his rays.Though..

STRANGE are the ways of men,And strange the ways of God!We tread the mazy pathsThat all our fathers trod.We tread them undismayed,And undismayed..

STOUT marches lead to certain ends,We seek no Holy Grail, my friends -That dawn should find us every daySome fraction farther on our way.The dumb..

STILL I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wanderFar from the commoner way;Old-time trills and falls by the brook-side still do I..

AS swallows turning backwardWhen half-way o'er the sea,At one word's trumpet summonsThey came again to me -The hopes I had forgottenCame back again..

THE air was full of sun and birds,The fresh air sparkled clearly.Remembrance wakened in my heartAnd I knew I loved her dearly.The fallows and the..

WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush,And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,With sun on the meadowsAnd songs in the shadowsComes again to..

SOON our friends perish,Soon all we cherishFades as days darken - goes as flowers go.Soon in DecemberOver an ember,Lonely we hearken, as loud winds..

As Daniel, bird-alone, in that far land,Kneeling in fervent prayer, with heart-sick eyesTurned thro' the casement toward the westering skies;Or as..

The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age,The certain-footed sympathies of youth -These, and that lofty passion after truth,Hunger unsatisfied..

Not undelightful, friend, our rustic easeTo grateful hearts; for by especial hap,Deep nested in the hill's enormous lap,With its own ring of walls..

I have a hoard of treasure in my breast;The grange of memory steams against the door,Full of my bygone lifetime's garnered store -Old pleasures..

So shall this book wax like unto a well,Fairy with mirrored flowers about the brim,Or like some tarn that wailing curlews skim,Glassing the sallow..