Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.   I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land.   I tire so... Read more

They went home and told their wives, that never once in all their lives, had they known a girl like me, But… They went home. They said my house was licking clean, no word I spoke was e... Read more

Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair.   I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the... Read more

It is a sultry day; the sun has drank The dew that lay upon the morning grass, There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent,... Read more

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the tra... Read more

I THOUGHT no more was needed Youth to polong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young.   O who could have foretold That thc heart grows old?   Though I have many words, What... Read more

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,—that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a si... Read more

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 believe the most.  ... Read more

Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day, When the April Fool met the Queen of May; She had roguish eyes and golden hair, And they were a mischief-making pair. They planned the funniest kind of a jo... Read more

For, lo, his passion, but an art of craft, Even there resolved my reason into tears; There my white stole of chastity I daff’d, Shook off my sober guards and civil fears; Appear to him... Read more