Poems

Never Mind My Country, though rude yet, and wild, be thy nature, This alone our proud love should beget and command: There’s noon in thy broad […]

On the Easter Illumination of St. Peter’s at Rome Four thousand lamps of gold and silver light Suspended round the mighty dome, and o er Those […]

Onward Have the blasts of sorrow worn thee, Have the rocks of danger torn thee, And thus shifted, wreck-like drifted, Wouldst thou find a port in […]

Outward Bound Away, away she plunges, With her white sails o’er her spread, Like the sheety clouds that gather On some great hill’s piny head. Still […]

Shakespeare Standing alone, a study in itself, How Shakespeare’s volume glorifies my shelf! For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined, Like a great morning […]

Song THE world’s heart is kindless and grey and unholy, As the head of the wandering Jew, And can never be won from the cause of […]

Song! A thousand million souls arise Out of the cradle of to-day, And, like a living storm, beneath the skies Go thundering on their fatal way! […]

Sonnet SHE loves me! From her own bliss-breathing lips The live confession came, like rich perfume From crimson petals bursting into bloom! And still my heart […]

The Anchor Firm trust of the bold sailor on the shores of sudden storm, What strength is in its structure and the fitness of its form! […]

The Babylonian Captivity By far Euphrates’ stream we state, A weary band of herded slaves, And over Judah’s fallen estate We wept into the passing waves. […]