Volume III – Essays II
I. The Poet
A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their...
II. Experience
The lords of life, the lords of life,—I saw them pass,In their own guise,Like and unlike,Portly...
III. Character
The sun set; but set not his hope:Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:Fixed on the enormous ga...
IV. Manners
“How near to good is what is fair!Which we no sooner see,But with the lines and outward airOur ...
V. Gifts
Gifts of one who loved me, —‘T was high time they came;When he ceased to love me,Time they stop...
VI. Nature
The rounded world is fair to see,Nine times folded in mystery:Though baffled seers cannot impar...
VII. Politics
Gold and iron are goodTo buy iron and gold;All earth’s fleece and foodFor their like are sold.B...
VIII. Nominalist and Realist
In countless upward-striving wavesThe moon-drawn tide-wave strives;In thousand far-transplanted...
IX. New England Reformers
In the suburb, in the town,On the railway, in the square,Came a beam of goodness downDoubling d...