Love or Fame; and Other Poems

And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a dream, a chain of gold That turns to iron bands when love is cold. What matter...

Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star that wise men never see, An idle dream of things that may not be. Farewell t...

One eve she stood upon a lonely lea And watched the deep'ning shadows grim That threw their forms athwart the restless sea, Making the radiance of the West grow dim. A glorious...

Low in the West, a banner floating wide Of God's own colors hangs in dreamy pride; A wealth of purple stains and gleams of gold, A crimson splendor o'er each waving fold; A heap...

Girlhood, the dearest time of joy and love, The sunny spring of gladness and of peace, The time that joins its links with heaven above, And all that's pure below; a running ease...

Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57-71. Miscellaneous Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72. To Longfellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72. Tower...