But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they'd do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum —

The Image Of God (From The Spanish Of Francisco De Aldana)

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Lord! who seest, from yon starry height

Centred in one the future and the past

Go Not Far From Me, O My God

© Anna Laetitia Waring

Go not far from me, O my God,
Whom all my times obey;
Take from me anything Thou wilt,
But go not Thou away,
And let the storm that does thy work
Deal with me as it may.

The Hereafter

© James Whitcomb Riley

Hereafter! O we need not waste

Our smiles or tears, whatever befall:

The Rendition

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I HEARD the train's shrill whistle call,
I saw an earnest look beseech,
And rather by that look than speech
My neighbor told me all.

Ecologue II

© Virgil

ALEXIS

The shepherd Corydon with love was fired

A Testimony

© Christina Georgina Rossetti

I said of laughter: it is vain.
Of mirth I said: what profits it?
Therefore I found a book, and writ
Therein how ease and also pain,
How health and sickness, every one
Is vanity beneath the sun.

Hope Deferred

When the weary night is fled,
And the morning sky is red,
Then my heart doth rise and say,
`Surely she will come to-day.'

Their daisy, oak and rose were new;
Fresh runnels down their valleys babbled;
New were red lip, true eyes, fresh dew;
All dells, all shores, had not been rabbled;
Nor yet the rhyming lovers crew
Tree-bark and casement-pane had scrabbled.

Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue I

© John Kenyon

Yet the heart vents still more indignant blame,
Where Lawgivers their sullen codes proclaim,
And idly would constrain the creed within,
As if Belief were Crime, and ToleranceSin.

On two Children dying of one Disease, and buried in one Grave

© Henry King

Brought forth in sorrow, and bred up in care,
Two tender Children here entombed are:
One Place, one Sire, one Womb their being gave,
They had one mortal sickness, and one grave.