Poems

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d . When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in […]

Whispers Of Heavenly Death WHISPERS of heavenly death, murmur’d I hear; Labial gossip of night–sibilant chorals; Footsteps gently ascending–mystical breezes, wafted soft and low; Ripples of […]

Who Is Now Reading This? May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my past life, Or may-be a stranger is reading this […]

Who Learns My Lesson Complete? WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice–churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker–parents and offspring–merchant, clerk, porter and […]

Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you […]

With All Thy Gifts WITH all thy gifts, America, (Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,) Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee–With these, and like of […]

With Antecedents WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not been, I would not now […]

World, Take Good Notice WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning, Scarlet, significant, hands […]

Year Of Meteors, 1859 ’60 YEAR of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs; I would sing your […]

Year That Trembled YEAR that trembled and reel’d beneath me! Your summer wind was warm enough–yet the air I breathed froze me; A thick gloom fell […]