• Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle

    If I prove it steep —

    If a Discouragement withhold me —

    If my newest step


    Older feel than the Hope that prompted —

    Spotless be from blame

    Heart that proposed as Heart that accepted

    Homelessness, for Home —

  • Whose are the little beds, I asked

    Which in the valleys lie?

    Some shook their heads, and others smiled —

    And no one made reply.


    Perhaps they did not hear, I said,

    I will inquire again —

    Whose are the beds — the tiny beds

    So thick upon the plain?


    'Tis Daisy, in the...

  • Within that little Hive

    Such Hints of Honey lay

    As made Reality a Dream

    And Dreams, Reality —