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• Stella

  Home from the observatory,
  Now I take her on my knee,
  And I tell her all the glory …

  Charles Henry Crandall

• The Scarlet Tanager

  A flame went flitting through the wood;
  The neighboring birds all understood
  Here was a marvel of their kind; …

  Mary Augusta Mason

• The Mocking-Bird

  The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong.
  No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone!
  The poets sing but strains of Shakespeare’s song; …

  Henry Jerome Stockard

• Fate

  Two shall be born the whole wide world apart;
  And speak in different tongues, and have no thought
  Each of the other’s being, and no heed; …

  Susan Marr Spalding

• Death

  Calm death, God of crossed hands and passionless eyes,
  Thou God that never heedest gift nor prayer,
  Men blindly call thee cruel, unaware …

  George Pellew

• Quatrains

  A quatrain
  hark at the lips of this pink whorl of shell
  And you shall hear the ocean’s surge and roar: …

  Frank Dempster Sherman

• Genesis

  Did chaos form,—and water, air, and fire,
  Rocks, trees, the worm, work toward Humanity,—
  That Man at last, beneath the churchyard spire, …

  John Hall Ingham

• Icarus

  ’t is something from that tangle to have won;
  ’T is something to have matched the wildbird’s flight;
  ’T is something to have soared and touched the sun. …

  Harry Lyman Koopman

• A Farewell

  Good-by: nay, do not grieve that it is over—
  The perfect hour;
  That the winged joy, sweet honey-loving rover, …

  Harriet Monroe

• Sorrow

  O thorn-crowned Sorrow, pitiless and stern,
  I sit alone with broken heart, my head
  Low bowed, keeping long vigil with my dead. …

  Katrina Trask

• Love

  O power of Love, O wondrous mystery!
  How is my dark illumined by thy light,
  That maketh morning of my gloomy night, …

  Katrina Trask

• At Last

  Beyond the bourn of mortal death and birth,
  Two lovers—parted sorrowing on earth—
  Met in the land of dim and ghostly space. …

  Katrina Trask

• Solitude

  It is the bittern’s solemn cry
  Far out upon the lonely moors,
  Where steel-gray pools reflect the sky, …

  Frederick Peterson

• Songs

  Fear
  there is a sound I would not hear,
  Although it music’s self might be; …

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

• Song

  Thy face I have seen as one seeth
  A face in a dream,
  Soft drifting before me as drifteth …

  Sophie Jewett

• Proem

  If this little world to-night
  Suddenly should fall through space
  In a hissing, headlong flight, …

  Oliver Herford

• A Mood

  The wind exultant swept
  Through the new leaves overhead,
  Till at once my pulses leapt …

  Winifred Howells

• Envoy

  I
  whose furthest footstep never strayed
  Beyond the village of his birth …

  Richard Hovey

• Love and Life

  “give me a fillet, Love,” quoth I,
  “To bind my Sweeting’s heart to me,
  So ne’er a chance of earth or sky …

  Julie Mathilde Lippmann

• The Pines

  Throughout the soft and sunlit day
  The pennoned pines, in strict array,
  Stand grim and silent, gaunt and gray. …

  Julie Mathilde Lippmann

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