The Mocking-Bird
List to that bird! His song—what poet pens it?
Brigand of birds, he ’s stolen every note!
Prince though of thieves—hark! how the rascal spends it!
Pours the whole forest from one tiny throat!
More poems by Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes
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A Good-By
The Wakening bugles cut the night:
“To horse! To horse! Away!”
And thine the lips that bid me go, … -
An Opal
A Rose of fire shut in a veil of snow,
An April gleam athwart a misted sky:
A jewel—a soul! gaze deep if thou wouldst know … -
The Dancer
Skin creamy as the furled magnolia bud
That stabs the dusky shadows of her hair;
Great startled eyes, and sudden-pulsing blood … -
The Deathless
What charlatans in this later day
Beat at the gates of Art!
Each with his trick of speech or brush,— …