Contents
introduction xxvii
poems.
1890.
prelude
book i.
life.
success
"our share of the night to bear. . ."
rouge et noir
rouge gagne
"glee! the great storm is over. . ."
"if i can stop one heart from
breaking. . ."
almost!
"a wounded dear leaps highest. . ."
"the heart asks pleasure first. . ."
in a library
"much madness is divinest sense. . ."
"i asked no other thing. . ."
exclusion
the secret
the lonely house
"to fight aloud is very brave. . ."
dawn
the book of martyrs
the mystery of pain
"i taste a liquor never brewed. . ."
a book
"i had no time to hate, because. . ."
unreturning
"whether my bark went down at sea. . ."
"belshazzar had a letter. . ."
"the brain within its groove. . ."
book ii.
love.
mine
bequest
"alter? when the hills do. . ."
suspense
surrender
"if you were coming in the fall. . ."
with a flower
proof
"have you got a brook in your
little heart?"
transplanted
the outlet
in vain
renunciation
love's baptism
resurrection
apocalypse
the wife
apotheosis
book iii.
nature.
"new feet within my garden go. . ."
may-flower
why?
"perhaps you'd like to buy a flower. . ."
"the pedigree of honey. . ."
a service of song
"the bee is not afraid of me. . ."
summer's armies
the grass
"a little road not made of man. . ."
summer shower
psalm of the day
the sea of sunset
purple clover
the bee
"presentiment is that long shadow on
the lawn. . ."
"as children bid the guest good-night. . ."
"angels in the early morning. . ."
"so bashful when i spied her. . ."
two worlds
the mountain
a day
"the butterfly's assumption-gown. . ."
the wind
death and life
"'twas later when the summer went. . ."
indian summer
autumn
beclouded
the hemlock
"there's a certain slant of light. . ."
book iv.
time and eternity.
"one dignity delays for all. . ."
too late
astra castra
"safe in their alabaster chambers. . ."
"on this long storm the
rainbow rose. . ."
from the chrysalis
setting sail
"look back on time with kindly eyes. . ."
"a train went through a burial gate. . ."
"i died for beauty, but was scarce. . ."
troubled about many things
real
the funeral
"i went to thank her. . ."
"i've seen a dying eye. . ."
refuge
"i never saw a moor. . ."
playmates
"to know just how he suffered would
be dear. . ."
"the last night that she lived. . ."
the first lesson
"the bustle in a house. . ."
"i reason, earth is short. . ."
"afraid? of whom am i afraid?"
dying
"two swimmers wrestled on the spar. . ."
the chariot
"she went as quiet as the dew. . ."
resurgam
"except to heaven she is nought. . ."
"death is a dialogue between. . ."
"it was too late for man. . ."
along the potomac
"the daisy follows soft the sun. . ."
emancipation
lost
"if i shouldn't be alive. . ."
"sleep is supposed to be. . ."
"i shall know why when time is over. . ."
"i never lost as much but twice. . ."
poems.
1891.
"my nosegays are for captives. . ."
book i.
life.
"i'm nobody! who are you?"
"i bring an unaccustomed wine. . ."
"the nearest dream recedes,
unrealized. . ."
"we play at paste. . ."
"i found the phrase to every thought. . ."
hope
the white heat
triumph
the test
escape
compensation
the martyrs
a prayer
"the thought beneath so slight a film. . ."
"the soul unto itself. . ."
"surgeons must be very careful. . ."
the railway train
the show
"delight becomes pictorial. . ."
"a thought went up my mind today. . ."
"is heaven a physician?"
the return
"a poor torn heart, a tattered heart. . ."
too much
shipwreck
"victory comes late. . ."
enough
"experiment to me. . ."
my country's wardrobe
"faith is fine invention. . ."
"except the heaven had come so near. . ."
"portraits are to daily faces. . ."
the duel
"a shady friend for torrid days. . ."
the goal
sight
"talk with prudence to a beggar. . ."
the preacher
"good night! which put the candle out?"
"when i hoped i feared. . ."
deed
time's lesson
remorse
the shelter
"undue significance a starving
man attaches. . ."
"heart not so heavy as mine. . ."
"i many times thought peace had come. . ."
"unto my books so good to turn. . ."
"this merit hath the worst. . ."
hunger
"i gained it so. . ."
"to learn the transport by the pain. . ."
returning
prayer
"i know that he exists. . ."
melodies unheard
called back
book ii.
love.
choice
"i have no life but this. . ."
"your riches taught me poverty. . ."
the contract
the letter
"the way i read a letter's this. . ."
"wild nights! wild nights!"
at home 89
possession
"a charm invests a face. . ."
the lovers
"in lands i never saw, they say. . ."
"the moon is distant from the sea. . ."
"he put the belt around my life. . ."
the lost jewel
"what if i say i shall not wait?"
book iii.
nature.
mother nature
out of the morning
"at half-past three a single bird. . ."
day's parlor
the sun's wooing
the robin
the butterfly's day
the bluebird
april
the sleeping flowers
my rose
the oriole's secret
the oriole
in shadow
the humming-bird
secrets
"who robbed the woods. . ."
two voyagers
by the sea
old-fashioned
a tempest
the sea
in the garden
the snake
the mushroom
the storm
the spider
"i know a place where summer strives. . ."
"the one that could repeat the
summer day. . ."
the wind's visit
"nature, rarer uses yellow. . ."
gossip
simplicity
storm
the rat
"frequently the woods are pink. . ."
a thunder-storm
with flowers
sunset
"she sweeps with many-colored brooms. . ."
"like mighty footlights burned the red. . ."
problems
the juggler of day
my cricket
"as imperceptibly as grief. . ."
"it can't be summer,-that got through. . ."
summer's obsequies
fringed gentian
november
the snow
the bluejay
book iv.
time and eternity.
"let down the bars, o death!"
"going to heaven!"
"at least to pray is left, is left. . ."
epitaph
"morns like these we parted. . ."
"a death-blow is a life-blow to some. . ."
"i read my sentence steadily. . ."
"i have not told my garden yet. . ."
the battle-field
"the only ghost i ever saw. . ."
"some, too fragile for winter winds. . ."
"as by the dead we love to sit. . ."
memorials
"i went to heaven. . ."
"their height in heaven comforts not. . ."
"there is a shame of nobleness. . ."
triumph
"pompless no life can pass away. . ."
"i noticed people disappeared. . ."
following
"if anybody's friend be dead. . ."
the journey
a country burial
going
"essential oils are wrung. . ."
"i lived on dread; to those who know. . ."
"if i should die. . ."
at length
ghosts
vanished
precedence
gone
requiem
"what inn is this. . ."
"it was not death, for i stood up. . ."
till the end
void
"a throe upon the features. . ."
saved!
"i think just how my shape will rise. . ."
the forgotten grave
"lay this laurel on the one. . ."
poems.
1896.
"'tis all i have to bring today. . ."
book i.
life.
real riches
superiority to fate
hope
forbidden fruit (i)
forbidden fruit (ii)
a word
"to venerate the simple days. . ."
life's trades
"drowning is not so pitiful. . ."
"how still the bells in steeples stand. . ."
"if the foolish call them 'flowers'. . ."
a syllable
parting
aspiration
the inevitable
a book
"who has not found the heaven below. . ."
a portrait
i had a guinea golden
saturday afternoon
"few get enough,-enough is one. . ."
"upon the gallows hung a wretch. . ."
the lost thought
reticence
with flowers
"the farthest thunder that i heard. . ."
"on the bleakness of my lot. . ."
contrast
friends
fire
a man
ventures
griefs
"i have a king who does not speak. . ."
disenchantment
lost faith
lost joy
"i worked for chaff, and earning wheat. . ."
"life, and death, and giants. . ."
alpine glow
remembrance
"to hang our head ostensibly. . ."
the brain
"the bone that has no marrow. . ."
the past
"to help our bleaker parts. . ."
"what soft, cherubic creatures. . ."
desire
philosophy
power
"a modest lot, a fame petite. . ."
"in bliss, then, such abyss. . ."
experience
thanksgiving day
childish griefs
book ii.
love.
consecration
love's humility
love
satisfied
with a flower
song
loyalty
"to lose thee, sweeter than to gain. . ."
"poor little heart!"
forgotten
"i've got an arrow here. . ."
the master
"heart, we will forget him!"
"father, i bring thee not myself. . ."
"we outgrow love like other things. . ."
"not with a club the heart is broken. . ."
who?
"he touched me, so i live to know. . ."
dreams
numen lumen
longing
wedded
book iii.
nature.
nature's changes
the tulip
"a light exists in spring. . ."
the waking year
to march
march
dawn
"a murmur in the trees to note. . ."
"morning is the place for dew. . ."
"to my quick ear the leaves conferred. . ."
a rose
"high from the earth i heard a bird. . ."
cobwebs
a well
"to make a prairie it takes a clover. . ."
the wind
"a dew sufficed itself. . ."
the woodpecker
a snake
"could i but ride indefinite. . ."
the moon
the bat
the balloon
evening
cocoon
sunset
aurora
the coming of night
aftermath
book iv.
time and eternity.
"this world is not conclusion. . ."
"we learn in the retreating. . ."
"they say that 'time assuages'. . ."
"we cover thee, sweet face. . ."
"that is solemn we have ended. . ."
"the stimulus, beyond the grave. . ."
"given in marriage unto thee. . ."
"that such have died enables us. . ."
"they won't frown always,-some
sweet day. . ."
immortality
"the distance that the dead have gone. . ."
"how dare the robins sing. . ."
death
unwarned
"each that we lose takes part of us. . ."
"not any higher stands the grave. . ."
asleep
the spirit
the monument
"bless god, he went as soldiers. . ."
"immortal is an ample word. . ."
"where every bird is bold to go. . ."
"the grave my little cottage is. . ."
"this was in the white of the year. . ."
"sweet hours have perished here. . ."
"me! come! my dazzled face. . ."
invisible
"i wish i knew that woman's name. . ."
trying to forget
"i felt a funeral in my brain. . ."
"i meant to find her when i came. . ."
waiting
"a sickness of this world it most
occasions. . ."
"superfluous were the sun. . ."
"so proud she was to die. . ."
farewell
"the dying need but little, dear. . ."
dead
"the soul should always stand ajar. . ."
"three weeks passed since i had
seen her. . .
"i breathed enough to learn
the trick. . ."
"i wonder if the sepulchre. . ."
joy in death
"if i may have it when it's dead. . ."
"before the ice is in the pools. . ."
dying
"adrift! a little boat adrift!"
"there's been a death in the opposite
house. . ."
"we never know we go,-when we are
going. . ."
the soul's storm
"water is taught by thirst. . ."
thirst
"a clock stopped-not the mantel's. . ."
charlotte bronte's grave
"a toad can die of light. . ."
"far from love the heavenly father. . ."
sleeping
retrospect
eternity
