• If there be graveyards in the heart
      From which no roses spring,
    A place of wrecks and old gray tombs
      From which no birds take wing,
    Where linger buried hopes and dreams
      Like ghosts among the graves,
    Why, buried hopes are dismal things,
      And lonely ghosts are knaves!

    If there come dreary winter days,
      When summer...

  • It's all I have to bring today —

    This, and my heart beside —

    This, and my heart, and all the fields —

    And all the meadows wide —

    Be sure you count — should I forget

    Some one the sum could tell —

    This, and my heart, and all the Bees

    Which in the Clover dwell.

  • Lest any doubt that we are glad that they were born Today

    Whose having lived is held by us in noble Holiday

    Without the date, like Consciousness or Immortality —

  • Today or this noon

    She dwelt so close

    I almost touched her —

    Tonight she lies

    Past neighborhood

    And bough and steeple,

    Now past surmise.