Occupation: Poet Birth: March 23, 1865 Death: December 8, 1914
What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?.
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills an….
Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter..
Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, jou….
When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee drones in the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its ….
This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain..
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem To end it all and let w….
I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal T….
When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins, And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes, I s….
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of….
Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain..
And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours..
At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun..
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain..