To get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;Here’s a good place at the corner–I must stand and see the show. Clear the…

Arm’d year! year of the struggle!No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk,…

    I should not dare to leave my friend,    Because — because if he should die    While I was gone, and I — too late —    Should reach the…

    ‘T is so much joy! ‘T is so much joy!    If I should fail, what poverty!    And yet, as poor as I    Have ventured all upon a throw;    Have…

    Soul, wilt thou toss again?    By just such a hazard    Hundreds have lost, indeed,    But tens have won an all.     Angels’ breathless ballot    Lingers to record thee;    Imps in eager…

    I years had been from home,    And now, before the door,    I dared not open, lest a face    I never saw before     Stare vacant into mine    And ask my…

    ‘T was just this time last year I died.    I know I heard the corn,    When I was carried by the farms, —    It had the tassels on….

    The reticent volcano keeps    His never slumbering plan;    Confided are his projects pink    To no precarious man.     If nature will not tell the tale    Jehovah told to her,    Can human…

    ‘T was a long parting, but the time    For interview had come;    Before the judgment-seat of God,    The last and second time     These fleshless lovers met,    A heaven in…