A Few More Verses

“Did you not know Me, my child?” the lips and eyes that were all love seemed to say to her. “You have thought the thoughts that I inspired, you have spoken my words, you set for...

Then, fearing to be spied, I crept to bed; And lying in a weary trance, half sleep, Heard shouts and cries and noise of joyful stir Run through the palace, and quick echoing fee...

There is the sea; and close by is our thirst, Yet here we sit and gaze the waters o’er, And dip our shallow shells in as at first. Just where the ripples break to wash the shore...

LOVE me now! Love has such a little minute! Day crowds on day with swift and noiseless tread, Life’s end comes ere fairly we begin it; Pain jostles joy, and hope gives place to...

But still the children of those exiled Moors, A sad transplanted stem on alien shore, Keep as their trust—and will while time endures— The rusty keys which their forefathers bor...

THE last sweet flowers are dying, The last green leaves are red; The wild geese southward flying, By law mysterious led, Scream noisily o’erhead; The honey-bees have hived them,...

_GIVING to all, thou gavest as well to me. A myriad thirsty shores await the tide: They drink and drink, and will not be denied; But not a drop less full the brimming Sea._

The Soul said to the Body: “I guide thee at my will. I am the wind within the sail, which else would lifeless swing; I am the mainspring of the watch, which else, inert and stil...