Poems

Compensation In that new world toward which our feet are set, Shall we find aught to make our hearts forget Earth’s homely joys and her bright […]

Connoisseurs O look at the horses and people! How they hurry and trample and fight! And the smoke blowing over the steeple,– O look, how the […]

Dust Here is a problem, a wonder for all to see. Look at this marvelous thing I hold in my hand! This is a magic surprising, […]

Guests Sunflower tall and hollyhock, that wave in the wind together, Corn-flower, poppy, and marigold, blossoming fair and fine, Delicate sweet-peas, glowing bright in the quiet […]

Karen At her low quaint wheel she sits to spin, Deftly drawing the long, light rolls Of carded wool through her finders thin, By the fireside […]

Land-Locked Black lie the hills; swiftly doth daylight flee; And, catching gleams of sunset’s dying smile, Through the dusk land for many a changing mile The […]

Lars “Tell us a story of these Isles,” they said, The daughters of the West, whose eyes had seen For the first time the circling sea, […]

Off Shore Rock, little boat, beneath the quiet sky, Only the stars behold us where we lie, – Only the stars and yonder brightening moon On […]

Slumber Song Thou little child, with tender, clinging arms, Drop thy sweet head, my darling, down and rest Upon my shoulder, rest with all thy charms; […]

The Sandpiper Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, but by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry. […]