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Man and Nature

O steadfast trees that know
Rain, hail, and sleet, and snow,
And all the winds that blow; …

Robert Kelley Weeks
The Making of Man

As the insect from the rock
Takes the color of its wing;
As the boulder from the shock …

John White Chadwick
The Golden-Robin's Nest

The golden-robin came to build his nest
High in the elm-tree’s ever-nodding crest;
All the long day, upon his task intent, …

John White Chadwick
Recognition

When souls that have put off their mortal gear
Stand in the pure, sweet light of heaven’s day,
And wondering deeply what to do or say, …

John White Chadwick
Starlight

“look up,” she said; and all the heavens blazed
With countless myriads of quiet stars,
Whereon a moment silently he gazed, …

John White Chadwick
The Rise of Man

Thou for whose birth the whole creation yearned
Through countless ages of the morning world,
Who, first in fiery vapors dimly hurled, …

John White Chadwick
His Mother's Joy

Little, i ween, did Mary guess,
As on her arm her baby lay,
What tides of joy would swell and beat, …

John White Chadwick
A Wedding-Song

I said: “My heart, now let us sing a song
For a fair lady on her wedding-day;
Some solemn hymn or pretty roundelay, …

John White Chadwick
Army Correspondent's Last Ride

Ho! pony. Down the lonely road
Strike now your cheeriest pace!
The woods on fire do not burn higher …

George Alfred Townsend
In Rama

A little face there was,
When all her pains were done,
Beside that face I loved: …

George Alfred Townsend
The Fool's Prayer

The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: “Sir Fool, …

Edward Rowland Sill
Before Sunrise in Winter

A purple cloud hangs half-way down;
Sky, yellow gold below;
The naked trees, beyond the town, …

Edward Rowland Sill
The Lover's Song

Lend me thy fillet, Love!
I would no longer see:
Cover mine eyelids close awhile, …

Edward Rowland Sill
The Coup de Grace

if i were very sure
That all was over betwixt you and me,—
That, while this endless absence I endure …

Edward Rowland Sill
Tempted

Yes, i know what you say:
Since it cannot be soul to soul,
Be it flesh to flesh, as it may; …

Edward Rowland Sill
Force

The stars know a secret
They do not tell;
And morn brings a message …

Edward Rowland Sill
A Prayer

O god, our Father, if we had but truth!
Lost truth—which thou perchance
Didst let man lose, lest all his wayward youth …

Edward Rowland Sill
Christmas Night of '62

The wintry blast goes wailing by,
The snow is falling overhead;
I hear the lonely sentry’s tread, …

William Gordon McCabe
Dreaming in the Trenches

I picture her there in the quaint old room,
Where the fading fire-light starts and falls,
Alone in the twilight’s tender gloom …

William Gordon McCabe
A Dream of Flowers

Even at their fairest still I love the less
The blossoms of the garden than the blooms
Won by the mountain climber: theirs the tints …

Titus Munson Coan