• A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
    As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
    As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
    Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
    Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
    Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.

    ...

  • Break, break, break,
      On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
    And I would that my tongue could utter
      The thoughts that arise in me.

    O well for the fisherman’s boy
      That he shouts with his sister at play!
    O well for the sailor lad
      That he sings in his boat on the bay!

    And the stately ships go on,
      To the haven under the...

  • As by the shore, at break of day,
    A vanquished chief expiring lay,
    Upon the sands, with broken sword,
      He traced his farewell to the free;
    And there the last unfinished word
      He dying wrote, was “Liberty!”

    At night a sea-bird shrieked the knell
    Of him who thus for freedom fell:
    The words he wrote, ere evening came,
      ...

  • I will accept thy will to do and be,

       Thy hatred and intolerance of sin,

       Thy will at least to love, that burns within

          And thirsteth after Me:

    So will I render fruitful, blessing still,

       The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,

       Because thy will cleaves to the better part.—
    ...

  • To break so vast a Heart

    Required a Blow as vast —

    No Zephyr felled this Cedar straight —

    'Twas undeserved Blast —