Pure as an angel’s dream shone Paradise.    Blue mountains hemmed it round; and airy sighs    Of rippling waters haunted it. Dim glades,    And wayward paths o’erflecked with shimmering…

    From the mystic sidereal spaces,    In the noon of a night ‘mid of May,    Came a spirit that murmured to me —    Or was it the dream of…

    Gone! and they return no more,     But they leave a light in the heart;    The murmur of waves that kiss a shore     Will never, I know,…

    The winds are singing a death-knell     Out on the main to-night;    The sky droops low — and many a bark     That sailed from harbors bright,        Like many…

    Wilt pray for me?        They tell me I have Fame;    I plead with thee,        Sometimes just fold my name    In beautiful “Hail Marys”!        And you give me more        Than all the…

    Some day in Spring,     When earth is fair and glad,    And sweet birds sing,     And fewest hearts are sad —        Shall I die then?        Ah! me, no matter…

    At the golden gates of the visions     I knelt me adown one day;    But sudden my prayer was a silence,     For I heard from the “Far…

    “What ails the world?” the poet cried;        “And why does death walk everywhere?        And why do tears fall anywhere?        And skies have clouds, and souls have care?”    Thus the…

    Out of the silences wake me a song,     Beautiful, sad, and soft, and low;    Let the loveliest music sound along,     And wing each note with a…

    God knows all things — but we     In darkness walk our ways;    We wonder what will be,     We ask the nights and days.     Their lips are…