Though I get home how late, how late!    So I get home, ‘t will compensate.    Better will be the ecstasy    That they have done expecting me,    When, night descending,…

    The rat is the concisest tenant.    He pays no rent, —    Repudiates the obligation,    On schemes intent.     Balking our wit    To sound or circumvent,    Hate cannot harm    A foe so reticent….

    I like to see it lap the miles,    And lick the valleys up,    And stop to feed itself at tanks;    And then, prodigious, step     Around a pile of…

    He preached upon “breadth” till it argued him narrow, —    The broad are too broad to define;    And of “truth” until it proclaimed him a liar, —    The…

    The past is such a curious creature,    To look her in the face    A transport may reward us,    Or a disgrace.     Unarmed if any meet her,    I charge him,…

    My river runs to thee:    Blue sea, wilt welcome me?     My river waits reply.    Oh sea, look graciously!     I’ll fetch thee brooks    From spotted nooks, —     Say, sea,    Take…

   One of the ones that Midas touched,    Who failed to touch us all,    Was that confiding prodigal,    The blissful oriole.     So drunk, he disavows it    With badinage divine;    So dazzling,…

    To hear an oriole sing    May be a common thing,    Or only a divine.     It is not of the bird    Who sings the same, unheard,    As unto crowd.     The…

    The only ghost I ever saw    Was dressed in mechlin, — so;    He wore no sandal on his foot,    And stepped like flakes of snow.    His gait was soundless,…

    The nearest dream recedes, unrealized.    The heaven we chase    Like the June bee    Before the school-boy    Invites the race;    Stoops to an easy clover —    Dips — evades — teases —…