It’S All I Have To Bring To-Day,    This, and my heart beside,    This, and my heart, and all the fields,    And all the meadows wide.    Be sure you count,…

 It was too late for man,    But early yet for God;    Creation impotent to help,    But prayer remained our side.     How excellent the heaven,    When earth cannot be had;    How…

 It was not death, for I stood up,    And all the dead lie down;    It was not night, for all the bells    Put out their tongues, for noon….

It can’t be summer, — that got through;    It ‘s early yet for spring;    There ‘s that long town of white to cross    Before the blackbirds sing.     It…

 Is bliss, then, such abyss    I must not put my foot amiss    For fear I spoil my shoe?     I’d rather suit my foot    Than save my boot,    For yet…

 From us she wandered now a year,    Her tarrying unknown;    If wilderness prevent her feet,    Or that ethereal zone     No eye hath seen and lived,    We ignorant must be.    We…

These are the days when birds come back,    A very few, a bird or two,    To take a backward look.     These are the days when skies put…

 I CANNOT live with you,    It would be life,    And life is over there    Behind the shelf     The sexton keeps the key to,    Putting up    Our life, his porcelain,    Like a…

 A bird came down the walk:    He did not know I saw;    He bit an angle-worm in halves    And ate the fellow, raw.     And then he drank a…

I dreaded that first robin so,    But he is mastered now,    And I ‘m accustomed to him grown, —    He hurts a little, though.     I thought if I…