• The Sunset stopped on Cottages

    Where Sunset hence must be

    For treason not of His, but Life's,

    Gone Westerly, Today —


    The Sunset stopped on Cottages

    Where Morning just begun —

    What difference, after all, Thou mak'st

    Thou supercilious Sun?

  • This — is the land — the Sunset washes —

    These — are the Banks of the Yellow Sea —

    Where it rose — or whither it rushes —

    These — are the Western Mystery!


    Night after Night

    Her purple traffic

    Strews the landing with Opal Bales —

    Merchantmen — poise upon Horizons —

    Dip — and...