Poems

Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts–I myself do not […]

Here, Sailor WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning? Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect pilot […]

Hours Continuing Long HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted, Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating myself, leaning my […]

How Solemn As One By One HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty–as the men file by where I […]

Hush’d Be the Camps Today Hush’d be the camps today, And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons, And each with musing soul retire to celebrate, […]

I Am He That Aches With Love I AM he that aches with amorous love; Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all […]

I Dream’d In A Dream I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the […]

I Hear America Singing I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics–each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; […]

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions; But really I am neither for […]

I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I pass’d the church; Winds of […]