Poems

Sit Down, Sad Soul SIT down, sad soul, and count The moments flying: Come,—tell the sweet amount That ’s lost by sighing! How many smiles?—a score? […]

The Blood Horse GAMARRA is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line […]

The Hunter’s Song RISE! Sleep no more! ’T is a noble morn: The dews hang thick on the fringed thorn, And the frost shrinks back, like […]

The New-born Baby’s Song When I was twenty inches long, I could not hear the thrush’s song; The radiance of the morning skies Was most displeasing […]

The Old Witch in the Copse I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch, There’s many a one knows that– Alone I live in my […]

The Poet’s Song To His Wife HOW many summers, love, Have I been thine? How many days, thou dove, Hast thou been mine? Time, like the […]

The Sea THE SEA! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth’s […]

The Stormy Petrel A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on […]

The Watch I wakened on my hot, hard bed; Upon the pillow lay my head; Beneath the pillow I could hear My little watch was ticking […]

The Kaiser And God Led by Wilhelm, as you tell, God has done extremely well; You with patronizing nod Show that you approve of God. Kaiser, […]