Poems

The Home of Peace Trust and treachery, wisdom, folly, Madness, mirth and melancholy, Love and hatred, thrift and pillage, All are housed in every village. And […]

The Ideal Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome height Shut paradise from exiled Adam’s sight, Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to stray On either […]

The Nevers of Poetry Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay, That you in prose would hesitate to say. Never in rhyme pretend to […]

The Past The Past is flowing through my thoughts— Flowing like a sea; With all its billows dancing bright Over what?—an undermight Of darkling loss and […]

The Tear IT WAS a tale of passion that we read— Of two who loved, not happily, but well! And evermore her gentle breast did swell […]

The Temperance Movement A POWER is stirring—a broad light has shone Amid the nation’s—in the wilderness Of the world’s social horror and distress, Heralding temperance as […]

The Tower of the Dream Part I HOW wonderful are dreams! If they but be As some have said, the thin disjoining shades Of thoughts or […]

The Vision of the Rock I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river’s course to view, And watched the changing shadows freak Its liquid length […]

The Voice of the Swamp Oak Who hath lain him underneath A lone oak by a lonely stream; He hath heard an utterance breathe Sadder than […]

The Witch of Hebron A Rabbinical Legend Part I. From morn until the setting of the sun The rabbi Joseph on his knees had prayed, And, […]