Unto my books so good to turn    Far ends of tired days;    It half endears the abstinence,    And pain is missed in praise.     As flavors cheer retarded guests    With…

    ‘T was such a little, little boat    That toddled down the bay!    ‘T was such a gallant, gallant sea    That beckoned it away!     ‘T was such a greedy,…

    Undue significance a starving man attaches    To food    Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,    And therefore good.     Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us    That spices fly    In the…

    It makes no difference abroad,    The seasons fit the same,    The mornings blossom into noons,    And split their pods of flame.     Wild-flowers kindle in the woods,    The brooks brag…

    Two butterflies went out at noon    And waltzed above a stream,    Then stepped straight through the firmament    And rested on a beam;     And then together bore away    Upon a…

    Bereaved of all, I went abroad,    No less bereaved to be    Upon a new peninsula, —    The grave preceded me,     Obtained my lodgings ere myself,    And when I sought…

    How many times these low feet staggered,    Only the soldered mouth can tell;    Try! can you stir the awful rivet?    Try! can you lift the hasps of steel?…

    Who never lost, are unprepared    A coronet to find;    Who never thirsted, flagons    And cooling tamarind.     Who never climbed the weary league —    Can such a foot explore    The purple…

    Triumph may be of several kinds.    There ‘s triumph in the room    When that old imperator, Death,    By faith is overcome.     There ‘s triumph of the finer mind    When…

    As if some little Arctic flower,    Upon the polar hem,    Went wandering down the latitudes,    Until it puzzled came    To continents of summer,    To firmaments of sun,    To strange, bright crowds…