I am he that aches with amorous love;Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?So the Body of me, to all…

Hush’d be the camps to-day;And, soldiers, let us drape our war-worn weapons;And each with musing soul retire, to celebrate,Our dear commander’s death. No more for…

How solemn, as one by one,As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty–as the men file by where I stand;As the faces, the masks appear–as…

Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted,Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, seating myself, leaning my face in my…

What ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect pilot needs?Here, sailor!…

Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting:Here I shade and hide my thoughts – I myself do not expose them,And yet they…

Hast never come to thee an hour,A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?These eager business aims–books, politics, art, amours,To utter nothingness?

Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,Homer with all his wars and warriors, Hector, Achilles,…

Great are the myths – I too delight in them;Great are Adam and Eve – I too look back and accept them;Great the risen and…

Thought of the Infinite – the All!Be thou my God. Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade!Waiting, content, invisible yet, but certain,Be thou my God. Thou –…