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A Passing Glimpse

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To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His ‘Hesperides’ I often see flowers from a passing car That are gone before I can tell what they are. I want to…

A Minor Bird

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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if…

A Late Walk

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When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew, Half closes the garden path. And when I come to the garden…

A Hundred Collars

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Lancaster bore him–such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn’t see him often Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead And sends the children down there…

A Hillside Thaw

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To think to know the country and now know The hillside on the day the sun lets go Ten million silver lizards out of snow! As often as I’ve seen…

A Girl’s Garden

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A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked…

A Dream Pang

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I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway; And to the forest edge you came one day (This was my dream) and…

A Cliff Dwelling

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There sandy seems the golden sky And golden seems the sandy plain. No habitation meets the eye Unless in the horizon rim, Some halfway up the limestone wall, That spot…

A Brook in the City

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The firm house lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook That held the house as…

A Boundless Moment

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He halted in the wind, and–what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to…

‘Out, Out–‘

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The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that…