What though upon a wintry sea our life bark sails, What though we tremble 'neath its cruel gales, Its icy blast; We see a happy port lie far before, We see its shining waves, its sunny shore,...
I turn the key in this idle hour Of an ivory box, and looking, lo - See only dust - the dust of a flower; The waters will ebb, the waters will flow, And dreams will come, and dreams will go, Forever....
In the unquiet night, With all her beauty bright, She walketh my silent chamber to and fro; Not twice of the same mind, Sometimes unkind - unkind, And again no cooing dove hath a voice so sweet and low....
Clasp your arms round her neck to-night, Little Nell, Arms so delicate, soft and white, And yet so strong in love's strange might; Clasp them around the kneeling form, Fold them tenderly close and warm,...
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched before The low stone porch of the cottage door, And standing there was youth and maid, He for long journeying seemed arrayed,...
Sitting alone in the windy tower, While the waves leap high, or are low at rest, What does she think of, hour by hour, With her strange eyes bent on the distant west,...
I sit in the cloud and the darkness Where I lost you, peerless one; Your bright face shines upon fairer lands, Like the dawning of the sun, And what to you is the rustic youth,...
Now while the crimson light fades in the west, And twilight drops her purple shadows low - We stand with Memory on the mountain's crest, That overlooks the land of Long Ago. ...
"My house is thatched with violet leaves And paved with daisies fine, Scarlet berries droop over its eaves, Tall grasses round it shine; With softest down I have lined my nest,...