OCTOBER! tho' thy rugged brow,
No vivid wreaths entwine;
Tho' not for thee the zephyr blow,
Tho' not for thee the blossom glow,
Or skies unclouded shine:

Paracelsus: Part III: Paracelsus

© Robert Browning

Paracelsus.
Heap logs and let the blaze laugh out!

Idyll XXIV. The Infant Heracles

© Theocritus

"Sleep, children mine, a light luxurious sleep,
Brother with brother: sleep, my boys, my life:
Blest in your slumber, in your waking blest!"

An Unwritten Tragedy

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream!
Love is a running stream, whose waters flow
Upon the earth, and who would drink thereof
Must bend him earthwards. There was such an one

The Death Of Agnes

© Edith Nesbit

Now that the sunlight dies in my eyes,

And the moonlight grows in my hair,

The Widow Of Crescentius : Part II.

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Hast thou a scene that is not spread

With records of thy glory fled?

Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss

© Thomas Nashe

Adieu, farewell earth's bliss,
This world uncertain is;
Fond are life's lustful joys,
Death proves them all but toys,

Malham Cove

© Robert Laurence Binyon

There is threat in the wind, and a murmur
of water that swells
Swift in the hollow: about me
a shadow is thrown;

Red Maples

IN the last year I have learned
How few men are worth my trust;
I have seen the friend I loved
Struck by death into the dust,

Music

Thou, oh, thou!

Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thou

In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood
By my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother
And wiped away my tears, and said : "I have heard
The cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it.
Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light.
Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth."

Kalamazoo

Once, in the city of Kalamazoo,
The gods went walking, two and two,
With the friendly phoenix, the stars of Orion,
The speaking pony and singing lion.
For in Kalamazoo in a cottage apart
Lived the girl with the innocent heart.