He walked alone beside the lonely sea,    The slanting sunbeams fell upon his face,    His shadow fluttered on the pure white sands    Like the weary wing of a…

    The brook that down the valley     So musically drips,    Flowed never half so brightly     As the light laugh from her lips.     Her face was like the…

        “A land without ruins is a land without memories —        a land without memories is a land without history.        A land that wears a laurel crown may…

    Star! Star, why dost thou shine     Each night upon my brow?    Why dost thou make me dream the dreams     That I am dreaming now?     Star! Star,…

    Crushed with a burden of woe,     Wrecked in the tempest of sin:    Death came, and two lips murmured low,    “Ah! once I was white as the snow,    In…

    They ask me to sing them a Christmas song     That with musical mirth shall ring;    How know I that the world’s great throng     Will care for…

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…