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• A Tribute of Grasses

  Serene, vast head, with silver cloud of hair
  Lined on the purple dusk of death,
  A stern medallion, velvet set— …

  Hamlin Garland

• A Wish

  All day and many days I rode,
  My horse’s head set toward the sea;
  And as I rode a longing came to me …

  Hamlin Garland

• The Gift of Water

  “is water nigh?”
  The plainsmen cry,
  As they meet and pass in the desert grass. …

  Hamlin Garland

• The Ute Lover

  Beneath the burning brazen sky,
  The yellowed tepees stand.
  Not far away a singing river …

  Hamlin Garland

• Do You Fear the Wind?

  Do you fear the force of the wind,
  The slash of the rain?
  Go face them and fight them, …

  Hamlin Garland

• The Gold-Seekers

  I saw these dreamers of dreams go by,
  I trod in their footsteps a space;
  Each marched with his eyes on the sky, …

  Hamlin Garland

• The Greeting of the Roses

  We had been long in mountain snow,
  In valleys bleak, and broad, and bare,
  Where only moss and willows grow, …

  Hamlin Garland

• The Mother's Song

  All day and all day, as I sit at my measureless turning,
  They come and they go,—
  The little ones down on the rocks,—and the sunlight is burning …

  Virginia Woodward Cloud

• An Old Street

  The past walks here, noiseless, unasked, alone;
  Knockers are silent, and beside each stone
  Grass peers, unharmed by lagging steps and slow …

  Virginia Woodward Cloud

• Care

  All in the leafy darkness, when sleep had passed me by,
  I knew the surging of the sea—
  Though never wave were nigh. …

  Virginia Woodward Cloud

• Youth

  Out of the heart there flew a little singing bird,
  Past the dawn and the dew, where leaves of morning stirred,
  And the heart, which followed on, said: “Though the bird be flown …

  Virginia Woodward Cloud

• Sidney Godolphin

  They rode from the camp at morn
  With clash of sword and spur.
  The birds were loud in the thorn, …

  Clinton Scollard

• As I Came Down from Lebanon

  As i came down from Lebanon,
  Came winding, wandering slowly down
  Through mountain passes bleak and brown, …

  Clinton Scollard

• Khamsin

  Oh, the wind from the desert blew in!—
  Khamsin,
  The wind from the desert blew in! …

  Clinton Scollard

• Memnon

  Why dost thou hail with songful lips no more
  The glorious sunrise?—Why is Memnon mute,
  Whose voice was tuned as is the silvery flute …

  Clinton Scollard

• Be ye in Love with April-tide

  Be ye in love with April-tide?
  I’ faith, in love am I!
  For now ’t is sun, and now ’t is shower, …

  Clinton Scollard

• A Bell

  Had i the power
  To cast a bell that should from some grand tower,
  At the first Christmas hour, …

  Clinton Scollard

• From the "Commemoration Ode"

  Washington
  when dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time,
  Would strike that banner down, …

  Harriet Monroe

• In the Beginning

  When sunshine met the wave,
  Then love was born;
  Then Venus rose to save …

  Harriet Monroe

• The Fortunate One

  Beside her ashen hearth she sate her down,
  Whence he she loved had fled,—
  His children plucking at her sombre gown …

  Harriet Monroe

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