Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hearThe name I used to run at, when a child,From innocent play, and leave the cowslips plied,To glance up in some face that proved me dearWith the look of its eyes. I miss the clearFond voices which, being drawn and reconciledInto the music of Heaven’s undefiled,Call me [...]

As thro’ the land at eve we went, ; ; ; ;And pluck’d the ripen’d ears,We fell out, my wife and I,O we fell out I know not why, ; ; ; ;And kiss’d again with tears.And blessings on the falling out ; ; ; ;That all the more endears,When we fall out with those [...]

The mushroom is the elf of plants,At evening it is not;At morning in a truffled hutIt stops upon a spot As if it tarried always;And yet its whole careerIs shorter than a snake’s delay,And fleeter than a tare. ‘T is vegetation’s juggler,The germ of alibi;Doth like a bubble antedate,And like a bubble hie. I feel [...]

Mumsie and Dad are raven dark And I am lily blonde.”Tis strange,’ I once heard nurse remark, ‘You do not correspond.’And yet they claim me as their own, Born of their flesh and bone. To doubt their parenthood I dread, But now to girlhood grown,The thought is haunting in my head That I am not [...]

Let the rain kiss youLet the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid dropsLet the rain sing you a lullabyThe rain makes still pools on the sidewalkThe rain makes running pools in the gutterThe rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at nightAnd I love the rain. – April Rain Song by [...]

I THINK we are too ready with complaintIn this fair world of God’s. Had we no hopeIndeed beyond the zenith and the slopeOf yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faintTo muse upon eternity’s constraintRound our aspirant souls; but since the scopeMust widen early, is it well to droop,For a few days consumed in [...]

Superiority to fate Is difficult to learn.‘T is not conferred by any, But possible to earn A pittance at a time, Until, to her surprise,The soul with strict economy Subsists till Paradise. – SUPERIORITY TO FATE – Superiority to fate by Emily Dickinson

If you were coming in the fall,I’d brush the summer byWith half a smile and half a spurn,As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year,I’d wind the months in balls,And put them each in separate drawers,Until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed,I’d count them on my hand,Subtracting till my [...]

If freckles were lovely, and day was night,And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie,Life would be delight, —But things couldn’t go rightFor in such a sad plightI wouldn’t be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence,And past was present, and false was true,There might be some senseBut I’d be in [...]

Birds are flyin’ south for winter.Here’s the Weird-Bird headin’ north,Wings a-flappin’, beak a-chatterin’,Cold head bobbin’ back ‘n’ forth.He says, "It’s not that I like iceOr freezin’ winds and snowy ground.It’s just sometimes it’s kind of niceTo be the only bird in town." – Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein