The Senator's Favorite

"We were two daughters of one race; She was the fairest in the face; The wind is sighing in turret and tree. I hated her with the hate of hell, Therefore revenge became me well....

"Sister, since I met thee last, O'er thy brow a change has passed. In the softness of thine eyes Deep and still a shadow lies. From thy voice there thrills a tone Never to thy c...

"How does a woman love? Once, no more, Though life forever its loss deplore; Deep in sorrow, or want, or sin, One king reigneth her heart within; One alone by night and day Move...

"My hope was still in the shadow, Hers lay in the sun: I longed in vain: what _she_ asked for It straightway was done, Once I staked all my heart's treasure, We played--and she...

When Senator Winans left Precious standing like a vision of beauty under a garlanded pillar to await his return, he did not dream that the vulture of danger hovered near his blu...

"I miss you my darling, my darling-- The embers burn low on the hearth, And still is the air of the household, And hushed is the voice of mirth. The rain splashes fast on the te...

"Man's love is like the restless waves, Ever at rise and fall; The only love a woman craves It must be all in all. Ask me no more if I regret-- You need not care to know, A woma...

"He to whom I give affection Must have princely mien and guise; If devotion lay below me I would stoop not for the prize. Bend down to me very gently, But bend always from above...

"I am mad! The torture of unnumbered hours is o'er, The strong cord is broken, and my heart Riots in free delirium! Oh, Heaven! I struggled with it, but it mastered me! I fought...

"Eyes that loved me once, I pray Be not crueler than death; Hide each sharp-edged glance away Underneath its cruel sheath! Make me not, sweet eyes, with scorn, Mourn that I was...

"Droop and darken, eyes of blue, Love hath only tears for you; Love, begone, and lightly flee, Since thy smiles are not for me! Lips of scarlet, quench your fire, Torches vain o...

"I am seventeen to-day, and I have thirteen lovers!" cried pretty, saucy Ladybird, pirouetting on the velvet greensward in front of her father's house at Rosemont until her shor...

"Proud young head, so lightly lifted, Crowned with waves of gleaming hair; Eyes that flash with tell-tale mischief, Fearless eyes to do and dare; Cheeks that start to sudden fla...

"Oh, think when a hero is sighing, What danger in such an adorer! What woman would dream of denying The hand that lays laurels before her? No heart is so guarded around But the...

"Like the changeful month of spring Is my love, my lady-love; Sunshine beams and glad birds sing, Then a rain-cloud floats above: So your moods change with the wind, April-tempe...

"Ah, rosebud mouth for kisses made, And are you not the least afraid? And do not know, my little one, What mischief kisses sweet have done, O'er all the world and through all ti...

"But cruel fate that shapes our ends, Dark doom that poet love attends, The fate unhappy Petrarch sung In fair Italia's burning tongue; Such fate as reckless tears apart The ten...

"They warned me that you were a terrible flirt, And bade me beware of your wiles, But rashly I thought to escape any hurt 'Neath the charms of your treacherous smiles. No doubt...

Ladybird Conway, our little "April's lady," wept disconsolately some time upon the sofa after Aura Stanley had glided away. Her willful prank had not succeeded as she expected,...

"No, let me alone--'tis better so; My way and yours are widely far apart. Why should you stop to grieve about my woe, And why should I not step across your heart? A man's heart...

"I give thee up--a better fate My warm devotedness was due, Yet as I strike thee from my heart A tear shall seal our last adieu.... An idle word--a careless look, That love can...

Precious was alone in her airy white room, with the fragrant breeze straying into her windows with the moonlight--the moonlight so clear and white that Precious could read by it...

"Your trembling tones were low and deep; We smiled, we laughed, lest we should weep; Then parted for dear Honor's sake, For Honor's sake--for Honor's sake-- That spot is dear fo...

"The roses that his hands have plucked Are sweet to me, are death to me; Between them, as through living flowers, I pass, I clutch, I crush them, see! The bloom for her, the tho...

Nothing was talked of but the rivalry between Aura and Ladybird that had been the primary cause of the duel. It became the sensation of the hour. The gaping of the villagers whe...

"Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To heaven--the gate that leads sometimes to hell. Dear Go...

"The music of thy voice I heard Nor wish while it enslaved me; I saw thine eyes, but nothing feared, Till fears no more had saved me. The unwary sailor thus aghast, The wheeling...

"Thou didst set thy foot on the ship, and sail To the ice-fields and the snow; Thou wert sad, for thy love did naught avail, And the end we could not know.... Oh, I spoke once a...

"As roses when the warm west blows Break to full flower and sweeten spring, My soul would break to a glorious rose, In such wise at his whispering; In vain I listen; well away!...

"Jar one chord, the harp is silent; move one stone, the arch is shattered; One small clarion cry of sorrow bids an armed host awake; One dark cloud can hide the sunlight; loose...

It was not long after this that Mrs. Winans made the discovery that Mr. Stanley had come in as an office-holder under the new administration and that therefore he and his family...

"Is it true that many hands Find that rosary a chain? True that 'neath those snowy bands Throbs full oft a restless brain? True that simple robe of gray Covers oft a troubled br...

"All those who journey, soon or late, Must pass within the garden's gate; Must kneel alone in darkness there, And battle with some fierce despair. All paths that have been, or s...

"And like Communists, as mad, as disloyal, My fierce emotions roam out of their lair; They hate King Reason for being loyal, They would fire his castle and burn him there. O, Lo...

"Granted the odds are against us, granted we enter the field When Fate has fought and conquered, broken our sword and shield; What then? Shall we ask for quarter or say that our...

A desperate courage upheld Precious through that tragic scene, but at its fatal denouement she rushed back to Hetty, falling on her knees by the bed, and bursting into convulsiv...

"My fair lady's a dear, dear lady; I walked by her side to woo, In a garden alley so sweet and shady; She answered, 'I love not you; Pray now, pray now, go your way now, do!'"

"If he had known that she had borne so much For sake of the sweet past, That mere despair said, 'This cold look and tone Must be the cruel last.'"

"To hear, to heed, to wed, And with thy lord depart In tears that he as soon as shed, Will let no longer smart. Thy mother's lot, my dear, She doth in naught accuse; Her lot to...

"The fairest hope is the one which faded, The brightest leaf is the leaf that fell; The song that leaped from the lips of sirens Dies away in an old sea-shell. Clear and pure is...