We borrow,        In our sorrow,    From the sun of some to-morrow     Half the light that gilds to-day;        And the splendor        Flashes tender    O’er hope’s footsteps to defend her     From the…

    The world is sweet, and fair, and bright,     And joy aboundeth everywhere,    The glorious stars crown every night,     And thro’ the dark of ev’ry care    Above us…

    The death of men is not the death    Of rights that urged them to the fray;        For men may yield        On battle-field    A noble life with stainless shield,        And swords…

    Sometimes, from the far-away,     Wing a little thought to me;    In the night or in the day,     It will give a rest to me.     I have…

   Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore,    And ask of them why do they sigh?    The poets have asked them a thousand times o’er,    But they’re…

    Two loves came up a long, wide aisle,     And knelt at a low, white gate;    One — tender and true, with the shyest smile,     One —…

    A baby played with the surplice sleeve     Of a gentle priest; while in accents low,    The sponsors murmured the grand “I believe,”     And the priest bade…

    To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of Mobile     In the mystical dim of the temple,     In the dream-haunted dim of the day,    The sunlight…

    Winter on the mountains     Summer on the shore,    The robes of sun-gleams woven,     The lake’s blue wavelets wore.     Cold, white, against the heavens,     Flashed winter’s crown…

    Between two pillared clouds of gold     The beautiful gates of evening swung —    And far and wide from flashing fold     The half-furled banners of light, that…