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NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem,And lightly in the stress of fortune bearThe innumerable flaws of changeful care -Nor judge me light..

As in the hostel by the bridge I sate,Nailed with indifference fondly deemed complete,And (O strange chance, more sorrowful than sweet)The..

SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour,That when the dark hand of the shining powerShall one from other, wife or husband, take,The poor survivor..

SMALL is the trust when love is greenIn sap of early years;A little thing steps in betweenAnd kisses turn to tears.Awhile - and see how love be..

Of speckled eggs the birdie singsAnd nests among the trees;The sailor sings of ropes and thingsIn ships upon the seas.The children sing in far..

SINCE years ago for evermoreMy cedar ship I drew to shore;And to the road and riverbedAnd the green, nodding reeds, I saidMine ignorant and last..

SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God,That while my footsteps tread the flowery sodAnd the great woods embower me, and white dawnAnd purple..

All around the house is the jet-black night;It stares through the window-pane;It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,And it moves with the..

I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delightOf bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.I will make a palace fit for you and me,Of green..

Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave..

The rain is raining all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.

BY sunny market-place and streetWherever I go my drum I beat,And wherever I go in my coat of redThe ribbons flutter about my head.I seek recruits for..

I ASK good things that I detest,With speeches fair;Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,But hear my prayer.I say ill things I would not say -Things..

Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,Three of us abroad in the basket on the lea.Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,And..

Summer fading, winter comes--Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,Window robins, winter rooks,And the picture story-books.Water now is turned to..

OVER the land is April,Over my heart a rose;Over the high, brown mountainThe sound of singing goes.Say, love, do you hear me,Hear my sonnets..

ON now, although the year be done,Now, although the love be dead,Dead and gone;Hear me, O loved and cherished one,Give me still the hand that led,Led..

O DULL cold northern sky,O brawling sabbath bells,O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tellsThe year is like to die!O still, spoiled trees, O city..

NOW when the number of my yearsIs all fulfilled, and IFrom sedentary lifeShall rouse me up to die,Bury me low and let me lieUnder the wide and starry..

NOW bare to the beholder's eyeYour late denuded bindings lie,Subsiding slowly where they fell,A disinvested citadel;The obdurate corset, Cupid's..

When the golden day is done,Through the closing portal,Child and garden, Flower and sun,Vanish all things mortal.As the blinding shadows fallAs the..

Birds all the summer dayFlutter and quarrelHere in the arbour-likeTent of the laurel.Here in the forkThe brown nest is seated;For little blue eggsThe..

THERE'S just a twinkle in your eyeThat seems to say I MIGHT, if IWere only bold enough to tryAn arm about your waist.I hear, too, as you come and..

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,Steel-true and blade-straight,The great artificerMade my mate.Honour, anger, valour..

These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,Where all my tin soldiers are lying at rest,Were gathered in Autumn by nursie and meIn a wood with a..