Cosmos

Stark warriors of the Age of Stone With pristine valor all elate, Who sought and slew the great Cave Bear And robbed the tigress of her mate; And, weaponed with the ax and spear...

And all night long the restless sea Against its barriers rose and fell, Till grey-eyed Dawn, by lonely sands Saw flash and fade the last broad swell, Before her there the ebb-ti...

And when a-down the bare brown lanes Pattered the swift, white feet of Spring, I saw the velvet-golden flash That marked the yellow-hammer’s wing A-curve on high; and later hear...

Of trees that stirred in early Spring The slow sap moving in their veins; Of flowers that dyed the woodland slopes The primrose pale, and daisy-chains; Sun-kissed betimes, or ov...