Harry Thurston Peck

  • Sweet little maid with winsome eyes
      That laugh all day through the tangled hair;
    Gazing with baby looks so wise
      Over the arm of the oaken chair,
        Dearer than you is none to me,
          Dearer than you there can be none;
        Since in your...

  • Sweet eyes by sorrow still unwet,
    To you the world is radiant yet,
    A palace-hall of splendid truth
    Touched by the golden haze of youth,
    Where hopes and joys are ever rife
    Amid the mystery of life;
    And seeking all to understand,
    The world to...

  • Amid the chapel’s chequered gloom
      She laughed with Dora and with Flora,
    And chattered in the lecture-room,—
      That saucy little sophomora!
        Yet while, as in her other schools,
          She was a privileged transgressor,
        She never broke the...