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• Quatrains

  The soul IN THE BODY
  WHAT if the Soul her real life elsewhere holds,
  Her faint reflex Time’s darkling stream enfolds, …

  Edith Matilda Thomas

• The Mystery

  You gave me roses, love, last night,
  When the sea was blue and the skies were bright;
  And the earth was aglow with a golden light …

  Lilian Whiting

• The Man with the Hoe

  Nature reads not our labels, “great” and “small”;
  Accepts she one and all
  Who, striving, win and hold the vacant place; …

  John Vance Cheney

• Morning

  Will there really be a morning?
  Is there such a thing as day?
  Could I see it from the mountains …

  Emily Dickinson

• Lullaby

  Rockaby, lullaby, bees in the clover!
  Crooning so drowsily, crying so low,
  Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover! …

  Josiah Gilbert Holland

• Sleep

  In a tangled, scented hollow,
  On a bed of crimson roses,
  Stilly now the wind reposes; …

  Lewis Frank Tooker

• Anne

  Her eyes be like the violets,
  Ablow in Sudbury lane;
  When she doth smile, her face is sweet …

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Daffodils

  Fathered by March, the daffodils are here.
  First, all the air grew keen with yesterday,
  And once a thrush from out some hollow gray …

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Tears

  When i consider Life and its few years—
  A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;
  A call to battle, and the battle done …

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Immortality

  Battles nor songs can from oblivion save,
  But Fame upon a white deed loves to build:
  From out that cup of water Sidney gave, …

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Thomas a Kempis

  Brother of mine, good monk with cowlëd head,
  Walled from that world which thou hast long since fled,
  And pacing thy green close beyond the sea, …

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Quatrains

  Moonlight song OF THE MOCKING-BIRD
  EACH golden note of music greets
  The listening leaves, divinely stirred, …

  William Hamilton Hayne

• England

  I
  the voice of England is a trumpet tone
  When that inviolate Mother wills it so: …

  George Edgar Montgomery

• Walt Whitman

  He was in love with Truth and knew her near—
  Her comrade, not her suppliant on the knee:
  She gave him wild melodious words to be …

  Harrison Smith Morris

• The Mocking-Bird

  He did n’t know much music
  When first he come along;
  An’ all the birds went wonderin’ …

  Frank Lebby Stanton

• Love and Death

  Alas! that men must see
  Love, before Death!
  Else they content might be …

  Margaret Deland

• Cloistered

  Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the light
  And bar my door to all the airs of spring.
  Yet in my cell, concealed from curious sight, …

  Alice Brown

• Life

  What, comrade of a night,
  No sooner meet than fight?
  Before the word, the blow? …

  Alice Brown

• Sleep

  withdraw thee, soul, from strife.
  Enter thine unseen bark,
  And sail across the dark, …

  Alice Brown

• Quatrains

  The bedouins OF THE SKIES
  YON clouds that roam the deserts of the air,
  On wind-swift barbs, o’er many an azure plain, …

  James Benjamin Kenyon

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