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• White Roses

  There was a rose-tree grew so high
  And white with all its seven roses,
  It seemed a cloud ’twixt earth and sky. …

  Cora Fabbri

• Stevenson's Birthday

  “how I should like a birthday!” said the child,
  “I have so few, and they so far apart.”
  She spoke to Stevenson—the Master smiled— …

  Katherine Miller

• The Artist

  He wrought with patience long and weary years
  Upon his masterpiece, entitled “Fate,”
  And dreamed sweet dreams, the while his crust he ate, …

  Arthur Grissom

• The Mountain to the Pine

  Thou tall, majestic monarch of the wood,
  That standeth where no wild vines dare to creep,
  Men call thee old, and say that thou hast stood …

  Clarence Hawkes

• Experience

  I
  like Crusoe with the bootless gold we stand
  Upon the desert verge of death, and say: …

  Edith Wharton

• Intaglios

  Tennessee
  in Tennessee, the dogwood tree
  Blossoms to-night: towards the sea …

  Francis Brooks

• The Recruit

  Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden:
  “Bedad, yer a bad ’un!
  Now turn out yer toes! …

  Robert William Chambers

• The Little Nipper an' 'is Ma

  “yer know me little nipper,”
  Said ’Energy ’Awkins, M. P.
  “Well, ’e ’s a little champion, …

  George Fauvel Gouraud

• D'Artagnan's Ride

  Fifty leagues, fifty leagues—and I ride, and I ride—
  Fifty leagues as the black crow flies.
  None of the three are by my side… …

  Gouverneur Morris

• To a Moth

  Poor Creature! nay, I ’ll not say poor,
  Why, surely, thou art wondrous blest;
  Right royal is this sepulchre …

  Charles Edward Thomas

• Methinks the Measure

  Methinks the measure of a man is not
  To save a state in midst of fierce alarms,
  Do noble deeds and mighty feats of arms, …

  Percy Adams Hutchison

• Helios

  Oh, I am weary of a heart that brings
  Star-worship even to the shining sun:
  Rather a savage whose whole heart hath won …

  Joel Elias Spingarn

• Darkness

  Oft have I stood upon the foaming strand
  Watching the moonlight tremble on the sea;
  Oft have I seen the stars fade silently …

  James Naumberg Rosenberg

• Attainment

  Through my open window comes the sweet perfuming
  Of roses reddening under skies of June;
  No sight more fair than roses in red bloom, …

  Algernon Tassin

• God's Will

  I Know, I know where violets blow
  Upon a sweet hillside,
  And very bashfully they grow …

  Robert Louis Munger

• Cameos

  1
  a Valentine
  the WISE forget, dear heart; …

  Jeannette Bliss Gillespy

• The Song

  A Song lay silent in my pen
  Where yesterday I found it,
  Right cozy in its gloomy den, …

  John Erskine

• Alpheus and Arethusa

  A Nymph there was in Arcadie
  Who owned a crystal spring;
  And there she ’d wash, sans mackintosh, …

  Eugene Howell Daly

• On a Magazine Sonnet

  “scorn not the sonnet,” though its strength be sapped,
  Nor say malignant its inventor blundered;
  The corpse that here in fourteen lines is wrapped …

  Russell Hillard Loines

• A Crew Poem

  So happy were Columbia’s eight,
  As near the goal they drew,
  Each struggling hero all elate, …

  Edward Augustus Blount, Jr

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