Out of thy door I run to do the thing

That tell of wondrous birth,Of Titan children, father Sky,And mighty mother Earth.Yea, now are walking on the groundSons of the mingled brood;Yea, now upon the earth are foundSuch daughters of the Good.Earth-born, my sister, thou art stillA daughter of the sky;Oh, climb for ever up the hillOf thy divinity!To thee thy mother Earth is sweet,Her…

The king’s son walkit i’ the evenin hush,To hear the sea murmur and murr.Straucht ower the water slade frae the muneA glimmer o’ cauld weet licht;Ane o’ her horns rase the water abune,And lampit across the nicht.Quhat’s that, and that, far oot i’ the gray,The laich mune bobbin afore?It’s the bonny sea-maidens at their play-Haud…

Without a home, without a name,One over in the earth.No wifely triumph he inspired,Allayed no husband’s fear;Intruder bare, whom none desired,He had a welcome drear.Heaven’s beggar, all but turned adriftFor knocking at earth’s gate,His mother, like an evil gift,Shunned him with sickly hate.And now the mistress on her kneeThe unloved baby bore,The while the servant…

I am dumb, O man, and I need thy voice!’But man would not rejoice.‘Rejoice in thyself,’ said he, ‘O Sun,For thy daily course is a lordly one;In thy lofty place rejoice if thou can:For me, I am only a man.’‘Rejoice,’ said the Wind; ‘I am free and strong,And will wake in thy heart an ancient…

My one foot stands well, but never goes;I’ve a good many arms, if you count them all,But hundreds of fingers, large and small;From the ends of my fingers my beauty grows;I breathe with my hair, and I drink with my toes;I grow bigger and bigger about the waistAlthough I am always very tight laced;None e’er…

One day the cross will break in wings,The sinner laugh a holy laugh.The dwarfed Zacchaeus climbed a tree,His humble stature set him high;The Lord the little man did seeWho sought the great man passing by.Up to the tree he came, and stopped:‘To-day,’ he said, ‘with thee I bide.’A spirit-shaken fruit he dropped,Ripe for the Master,…