Before an Altar     I wish I were the little key     That locks Love’s Captive in,    And lets Him out to go and free     A sinful heart…

    Be you near, or be you far,    Let my blessing, like a star,     Shine upon you everywhere!    And in each lone evening hour,    When the twilight folds the…

    Silently — shadowly — some lives go,     And the sound of their voices is all unheard;    Or, if heard at all, ’tis as faint as the…

    Margarita first possess’d,    If I remember well, my breast,        Margarita, first of all;    But when a while the wanton maid    With my restless heart had play’d,        Martha took the flying…

    Saint Anthony at church    Was left in the lurch,    So he went to the ditches    And preached to the fishes.        They wriggled their tails,        In the sun glanced their scales….

I     Beneath the vine-clad eaves,    Whose shadows fall before    Thy lowly cottage door    Under the lilac�s tremulous leaves,    Within thy snowy claspe�d hand    The purple flowers it bore.    Last eve in…

 In these rapid, restless shadows,    Once I walked at eventide,    When a gentle, silent maiden,    Walked in beauty at my side    She alone there walked beside me    All in beauty,…

 �Tis said that when    The hands of men    Tamed this primeval wood,    And hoary trees with groans of woe,    Like warriors by an unknown foe,    Were in their strength subdued,    The…

When I was young the silkof my mindhard as a peony headunfurledand wind bloomed the parachute: The air-head tugged meup,tore my roots loose and drovehigh,…

A day without rain is likea day without sunshine