1. memory

  • Through those old Grounds of memory,

    Through those old Grounds of memory,

    The sauntering alone

    Is a divine intemperance

    A prudent man would shun.

    Of liquors that are vended

    'Tis easy to beware

    But statutes do not meddle

    With the internal bar.

    Pernicious as the sunset

    Permitting to pursue

    But...

  • To flee from memory

    To flee from memory

    Had we the Wings

    Many would fly

    Inured to slower things

    Birds with surprise

    Would scan the cowering Van

    Of men escaping

    From the mind of man

  • To the memory of Channing

           "The Prophets, do they live forever?" -- Zech. I. 5.

     

                Those spirits God ordained,

            To stand the watchmen on the outer wall,

            Upon whose souls the beams of truth first fall;

                They who reveal the ideal, the unattained,

            And to their age, in stirring tones...

  • When Memory is full

    When Memory is full

    Put on the perfect Lid —

    This Morning's finest syllable

    Presumptuous Evening said —