Every night my prayers I say,

Since last, in foul or fairAn impecunious pair,Below this northern skyOf ours, we met.Now winter night shall seeAgain us two,While howls the tempest higher,Sit warmly by the fireAnd dream and plan, as weWere wont to do.And, hand in hand, at largeOur thoughts shall walkWhile storm and gusty rain,Again and yet again,Shall drive their noisy chargeAcross…

Over the high, brown mountainThe sound of singing goes.Say, love, do you hear me,Hear my sonnets ring?Over the high, brown mountain,Love, do you hear me sing?By highway, love, and bywayThe snows succeed the rose.Over the high, brown mountainThe wind of winter blows.Say, love, do you hear me,Hear my sonnets ring?Over the high, brown mountainI sound…

Etches content thereon and makes it fair,Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?

In all the land of the tribe was neither fish nor fruit,And the deepest pit of popoi stood empty to the foot.The clans upon the left and the clans upon the rightNow oiled their carven maces and scoured their daggers bright;They gat them to the thicket, to the deepest of the shade,And lay with sleepless…

The seas are wild and wide;O’er many a salt, o’er many a desert mile,The unchained breakers ride,The quivering stars beguile.Hope bears the sole command;Hope, with unshaken eyes,Sees flaw and storm arise;Hope, the good steersman, with unwearying hand,Steers, under changing skies,Unchanged toward the land.O wind that bravely blows!O hope that sails with allWhere stars and voices…

Tho’ where you learned your music, not the God of song can tell,For you pipe the open highway and the sea.O piper, lightly footing, lightly piping on your way,Tho’ your music thrills and pierces far and near,I tell you you had better pipe to someone else to-day,For you cannot pipe my fancy from my dear.You…