What saw I yesterday walking apart In a leafy place where the cattle wait? Something to keep for a charm in my heart - A little sweet girl in a garden gate. Laughing she lay in the gold sun's might,...
"Giving up three for one!" - mother, You said in the long ago, When father, yourself, and John, mother, I left, o'er the deep to go. "Giving up three for one!" - mother,...
There were three friends that buried the fourth, The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyes, And they went south and east and north, The strong man fights but the sick man dies. ...
When I remember them, those friends of mine, Who are no longer here, the noble three, Who half my life were more than friends to me, And whose discourse was like a generous wine,...
We meant to be very kind, But if ever we find Another soft, grey-green, moss-coated, feather-lined nest in a hedge, We have taken a pledge-- Susan, Jemmy, and I--with remorseful tears, at this very minute,...
Remember all those renowned generations, They left their bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves...
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand; What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?
Virginia in her proud, Colonial days Boasts three great names which full of glory shine; Two glitter like the burnished heads of spears, the third in tender light is half divine....
Three of us without a care In the red September Tramping down the roads of Maine, Making merry with the rain, With the fellow winds a-fare Where the winds remember. ...
During a heavy storm it chanced That from his room a cockney glanced At the fierce tempest as it broke, While to his neighbour thus he spoke: "The thunder has our awe inspired,...
Three sweet drivers hold the reins, And hold the places of my heart. A great people obeys me, But these three obey me not. Am I then a lesser king than love? ...
Where love is life The roses blow, Though winds be rude And cold the snow, The roses climb Serenely slow, They nod in rhyme We know - we know Where love is life...
I hear a voice, perchance I heard Long ago, but all too low, So that scarce a care it stirred If the voice was real or no: I heard it in my youth when first The waters of my life outburst:...