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• The Eternal Justice

  Thank God that shall judge my soul, not man!
  I marvel when they say,
  “Think of that awful Day …

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

• Prairie

  Across the sombre prairie sea
  The dark swells billow heavily.
  Are the looming ridges near of far …

  Herbert Bates

• The Heavens Are Our Riddle

  The Heavens are our riddle; and the sea,
  Forested earth, the grassy rustling plain,
  Snows, rains, and thunders. Yea, and even we …

  Herbert Bates

• From "The Old-Fashioned Garden"

  Fair is each budding thing the garden shows,
  From spring’s frail crocus to the latest bloom
  Of fading autumn. Every wind that blows …

  John Russell Hayes

• The Flight of the Heart

  The Heart soars up like a bird
  From a nest of care;
  Up, up to a larger sky, …

  Dora Read Goodale

• The Soul of Man

  Say, in a hut of mean estate
  A light just glimmers and then is gone,
  Nature is seen to hesitate,— …

  Dora Read Goodale

• The Judgement

  Thou hast evil
  And given place to the devil;
  Yet so cunningly thou concealest …

  Dora Read Goodale

• The Flute

  PUFFED up with luring to her knees
  The rabbits from the blackberries,
  Quaint little satyrs, and shy and mute, …

  Joseph Russell Taylor

• The Veery-Thrush

  Blow softly, thrush, upon the hush
  That makes the least leaf loud,
  Blow, wild of heart, remote, apart …

  Joseph Russell Taylor

• A Song with a Discord

  Though Winter come with dripping skies,
  And laden winds and strong,
  Yet I ’ll read summer in her eyes …

  Arthur Colton

• To Faustine

  Something, it may be, you and I
  In some deserted yard will lie
  Where Memory fades away; …

  Arthur Colton

• Silkweed

  Lighter than dandelion down,
  Or feathers from the white moth’s wing,
  Out of the gates of bramble-town …

  Philip Henry Savage

• Infinity

  I Dare not think that thou art by, to stand
  And face omnipotence so near at hand!
  When I consider thee, how must I shrink; …

  Philip Henry Savage

• Richard Somers

  His body lies upon the shore,
  Afar from his beloved land,
  And over him shine tropic suns; …

  Barrett Eastman

• Joy Enough

  Into the caverns of the sea
  Shall all at last descend,
  Who now press forward gallantly …

  Barrett Eastman

• From "An Ode in Time of Hesitation"

  Robert Gould SHAW
  THE WARS we wage
  Are noble, and our battles still are won …

  William Vaughn Moody

• Nature: the Artist

  Such hints as untaught Nature yields!
  The calm disorder of the sea,
  The straggling splendor of the fields, …

  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

• A Pasture

  Rough pasture where the blackberries grow!—
  It bears upon its churlish face
  No sign of beauty, art, or grace; …

  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

• Luke Havergal

  Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,—
  There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,—
  And in the twilight wait for what will come. …

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

• Ballade of Dead Friends

  As we the withered ferns
  By the roadway lying,
  Time, the jester, spurns …

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

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