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• The Crystal

  Olympian sunlight is the Poet’s sphere;
  Yet of his rapt unconscious thought at play
  The wintry stream gave image but to-day, …

  Titus Munson Coan

• Nihil Humani Alienum

  In the loud waking world I come and go,
  And yet the twofold gates of dreams are mine;
  I have seen the battle-lightnings round me shine, …

  Titus Munson Coan

• Cressid

  Has any one seen my Fair,
  Has any one seen my Dear?
  Could any one tell me where …

  Nora Perry

• The Love-Knot

  Tying her bonnet under her chin,
  She tied her raven ringlets in;
  But not alone in the silken snare …

  Nora Perry

• Riding Down

  Oh, did you see him riding down,
  And riding down, while all the town
  Came out to see, came out to see, …

  Nora Perry

• Who Knows?

  Who knows the thoughts of a child,
  The angel unreconciled
  To the new strange world that lies …

  Nora Perry

• Brook Song

  brook, would thou couldst flow
  With a music all thine own—
  Thy babble of music alone— …

  James Herbert Morse

• The Wild Geese

  The wild geese, flying in the night, behold
  Our sunken towns lie underneath a sea,
  Which buoys them on its billows. Liberty …

  James Herbert Morse

• His Statement of the Case

  “now half a hundred years had I been born—
  So many and so brief—when made aware,
  By Time’s blunt looks, of hoar-frost in my hair. …

  James Herbert Morse

• The Wayside

  There are some quiet ways—
  Ay, not a few—
  Where the affections grow, …

  James Herbert Morse

• At the Grave of Walker

  He lies low in the levelled sand,
  Unsheltered from the tropic sun,
  And now of all he knew not one …

  Joaquin Miller

• Westward Ho!

  What strength! what strife! what rude unrest!
  What shocks! what half-shaped armies met!
  A mighty nation moving west, …

  Joaquin Miller

• Crossing the Plains

  What great yoked brutes with briskets low,
  With wrinkled necks like buffalo,
  With round, brown, liquid, pleading eyes, …

  Joaquin Miller

• Vaquero

  His broad-brimmed hat pushed back with careless air,
  The proud vaquero sits his steed as free
  As winds that toss his black abundant hair. …

  Joaquin Miller

• By the Pacific Ocean

  Here room and kingly silence keep
  Companionship in state austere;
  The dignity of death is here, …

  Joaquin Miller

• Twilight at the Heights

  The brave young city by the Balboa seas
  Lies compassed about by the hosts of night—
  Lies humming, low, like a hive of bees; …

  Joaquin Miller

• Dead in the Sierras

  his footprints have failed us,
  Where berries are red,
  And madroños are rankest,— …

  Joaquin Miller

• Peter Cooper

  give honor and love for evermore
  To this great man gone to rest;
  Peace on the dim Plutonian shore, …

  Joaquin Miller

• To Russia

  Who tamed your lawless Tartar blood?
  What David bearded in her den
  The Russian bear in ages when …

  Joaquin Miller

• The Voice of the Dove

  Come listen, O Love, to the voice of the dove,
  Come, hearken and hear him say,
  There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love,— …

  Joaquin Miller

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