• How little recks it where men lie,
      When once the moment’s past
    In which the dim and glazing eye
      Has looked on earth its last,—
    Whether beneath the sculptured urn
      The coffined form shall rest,
    Or in its nakedness return
      Back to its mother’s breast!

    Death is a common friend or foe,
      As different men may hold,...

  • I know a place where Summer strives

    With such a practised Frost —

    She — each year — leads her Daisies back —

    Recording briefly — "Lost" —


    But when the South Wind stirs the Pools

    And struggles in the lanes —

    Her Heart misgives Her, for Her Vow —

    And she pours soft Refrains

    ...