Waileth a woman, “O my God!”    A breaking heart in a broken breath,    A hopeless cry o’er her heart-hope’s death!    Can words catch the chords of the winds…

    I love my mother, the wildwood,     I sleep upon her breast;    A day or two of childhood,     And then I sink to rest.     I had once…

    Out of the shadows of sadness,    Into the sunshine of gladness,     Into the light of the blest;    Out of a land very dreary,    Out of a world very…

    Ah! days so dark with death’s eclipse!        Woe are we! woe are we!     And the nights are ages long!    From breaking hearts, thro’ pallid lips        O my God!…

    Do we weep for the heroes who died for us,    Who living were true and tried for us,    And dying sleep side by side for us;        The Martyr-band        That…

    Better than grandeur, better than gold,    Than rank and titles a thousand fold,    Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,    And simple pleasures that always please    A…

       Dreary! weary!        Weary! dreary!    Sighs my soul this lonely night.        Farewell gladness!        Welcome sadness!    Vanished are my visions bright.         Stars are shining!        Winds are pining!    In the sky and o’er the sea;        Shine…

    Into a temple vast and dim,    Solemn and vast and dim,    Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn         Was floating far away,    With eyes that tabernacled tears —    Her…

    I nearly died, I almost touched the door    That swings between forever and no more;    I think I heard the awful hinges grate,    Hour after hour, while I…

    I saw his face to-day; he looks a chief     Who fears not human rage, nor human guile;    Upon his cheeks the twilight of a grief,     But…