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• Segovia and Madrid

  It sings to me in sunshine,
  It whispers all day long,
  My heartache like an echo …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Arachne

  I watch her in the corner there,
  As, restless, bold, and unafraid,
  She slips and floats along the air …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Bluebeard's Closet

  Fasten the chamber!
  Hide the red key;
  Cover the portal, …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Lise

  If i were a cloud in heaven,
  I would hang over thee;
  If I were a star of even, …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• Done For

  A week ago to-day, when red-haired Sally
  DOWN to the sugar-camp came to see me,
  I saw her checked frock coming down the valley, …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• In Vain

  Put every tiny robe away!
  The stitches all were set with tears,
  Slow, tender drops of joys; to-day …

  Rose Terry Cooke

• The Blue and the Gray

  By the flow of the inland river,
  Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
  Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, …

  Francis Miles Finch

• The Vagabonds

  We are two travellers, Roger and I.
  Roger ’s my dog.—Come here, you scamp!
  Jump for the gentlemen,—mind your eye! …

  John Townsend Trowbridge

• Midwinter

  The speckled sky is dim with snow,
  The light flakes falter and fall slow;
  Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, …

  John Townsend Trowbridge

• Midsummer

  Around this lovely valley rise
  The purple hills of Paradise.
  O, softly on you banks of haze, …

  John Townsend Trowbridge

• The Word of God to Leyden Came

  The word of God to Leyden came,
  Dutch town by Zuyder-Zee;
  Rise up, my children of no name, …

  Jeremiah Eames Rankin

• The Babie

  Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes,
  Nae stockin’ on her feet;
  Her supple ankles white as snaw, …

  Jeremiah Eames Rankin

• Twilight at Sea

  The twilight hours like birds flew by,
  As lightly and as free;
  Ten thousand stars were in the sky, …

  Amelia Coppuck Welby

• Why Thus Longing?

  Why thus longing, thus for ever sighing,
  For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
  While the beautiful, all round thee lying, …

  Harriet Winslow Sewall

• Balder's Wife

  Her casement like a watchful eye
  From the face of the wall looks down,
  Lashed round with ivy vines so dry, …

  Alice Cary

• Nearer Home

  One sweetly solemn thought
  Comes to me o’er and o’er;
  I am nearer home to-day …

  Phoebe Cary

• The Master's Invitation

  Dear lord, thy table is outspread;
  What other could such feast afford?
  And thou art waiting at the head, …

  Anson Davies Fitz Randolph

• To a Young Child

  As doth his heart who travels far from home
  Leap up whenever he by chance doth see
  One from his mother-country lately come, …

  Eliza Scudder

• The Pilgrim

  A pilgrim am I, on my way
  To seek and find the Holy Land;
  Scarce had I started, when there lay …

  Sarah Hammond Palfrey

• A Strip of Blue

  I do not own an inch of land,
  But all I see is mine,—
  The orchard and the mowing-fields, …

  Lucy Larcom

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