{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4497", "width": "2774", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap.3.^7 Copyright No.\\nShelf.,...\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "4450", "width": "2781", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4427", "width": "2663", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4457", "width": "2632", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A Book of Verses", "height": "4451", "width": "2673", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4457", "width": "2632", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A Book of Verses\\nBY\\nRobert Loveman\\nPhiladelphia\\nJ. B. Lippincott Company\\nMdcccc", "height": "4451", "width": "2673", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPJES RECEIVED,\\nLibrary of Congret*\\nUfflea of tfe*\\nWAY 2 9 1900\\ntfogittor of Copyrlffctft\\n8EC0ND COPY,\\n62504\\nCopyright, 1900\\nBY\\nRobert Loveman\\nPRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. U.S.A.", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO\\nLILLIAN AND ERNEST LOYEMAN", "height": "4451", "width": "2673", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "AUTHOR S NOTE\\nFor kind courtesies regarding the reprinting of\\npoems in this volume, my thanks are due to the\\nEditors of Lippincotf s Magazine The Atlantic Monthly,\\nHarper s Magazine, The Critic, The Cosmopolitan, The\\nLadies Home Journal, The Independent, and The\\nYouth s Companion.\\nR. L.\\nDalton, Georgia, March, 1900.", "height": "4444", "width": "2642", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Table of Contents\\nDear Little Verse, 13\\nThe Cruise, 14\\nSong, 15\\nPompeii, 16\\nLines at Sea, 17\\nAn Exile, 18\\nOne Day, 19\\nOutward Bound, 20\\nWith Omar in the Orient, 21\\nTo Her, 23\\nAere Perennius, 24\\nSong, 25\\nMy Soul was Thirsty, 26\\nIn England, 27\\nBehind the Scenes, 28\\nThe Ride, 29\\nParis, 30\\nHeine, 31\\nProclamation, 32\\nCyrano Speaks,\\nSong, 34\\nThe Heart of God in Nature, 35\\n9", "height": "4444", "width": "2642", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Riches, 37\\nThe Secret, 38\\nThe Siren City, 39\\nA L Opera, 40\\nThe Pictures, 41\\nSong, 42\\nLines, 43\\nLullaby, 44\\nIf Honor Stay, 45\\nThe Poet s Realm, 46\\nLines, 47\\nSong, 48\\nEldorado, 49\\nThe Captain, 50\\nSong, 51\\nAt Lethe Wharf, 52\\nA Prayer, 53\\nLines at Sea, 55\\nThe Poet, 56\\nDream Kisses, 57\\nMoods, 58\\nRevenge, 59\\nA Deed, 60\\nA Glass of Tokay, 61\\nIdentity, 62\\nSong, 63\\nThe Poet s Heritage, 64\\nLines, 65\\nThe New Boy, 66\\n10", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Last Night, 67\\nSonnet, 68\\nLines, 69\\nVoices, 70\\nMarianna Alcaforado, 71\\nThe Mystery, 72\\nThis Coat of Clay, 73\\nWaves, 74\\nLines, 75\\nSong, 76\\nTo Elizabeth, 77\\nThis Would be a Blessed Day, 78\\nWrath and Love, 79\\nSong, 80\\nLines, 81\\nAll Atoning End, 83\\nIn Pink and White, 84\\nThe Poet s Soul, 85\\nLepers, 86\\nSong, 87\\nNot with Fear. 88\\nSong, 89\\nFrom Devonshire, 90\\nTrees, 91\\nGrief, 93\\nTo Thee, 94\\n1 1", "height": "4444", "width": "2642", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "DEAR LITTLE VERSE\\nDear little verse, the careless eye\\nAnd heedless heart will pass thee by,\\nAnd never needst thou hope to be\\nTo others as thou art to me.\\nFor lo, I know thy bliss and woe,\\nThy shallows, depths, and boundless heights,\\nHow thou wast wrought, patient and slow,\\nThrough crucibles of sleepless nights.\\n13", "height": "4421", "width": "2635", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "THE CRUISE\\nThe crescent moon s a yellow boat\\nUpon the evening sea,\\nAnd every little star afloat\\nDoth bear her company.\\nNightly they cruise their ocean o er,\\nUntil, the darkness gone,\\nThey anchor by some silent shore,\\nUpon the isle of dawn.\\n14", "height": "4434", "width": "2695", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nWhen song-bird thoughts within his heart\\nMake melody sublime,\\nThe Poet snares them by his art\\nInto a cage of rhyme.\\nAnd there the captive fancies beat\\nTheir wings against the bars,\\nThe music, soft and low and sweet,\\nAscending to the stars.\\nYet evermore they long to be\\nBack where the surges roll,\\nUntamed, unfettered, wild and free,\\nWithin the Poet s soul.\\n15", "height": "4421", "width": "2635", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "POMPEII\\nPompeii sat smiling in the sun,\\nShe was a city young and fair,\\nThe loved, the cherished, chosen one\\nOf grim Vesuvius tow ring there.\\nPompeii woke trembling in the night,\\nO livid night of lava sweat\\nShe hung her head to shut the sight,\\nAnd in her terror hideth yet.\\n16", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "LINES AT SEA\\nWe understand the leagues of land,\\nThe mountain and the vale,\\nThe desert s hush, the meadow s blush,\\nThe jungle and the trail.\\nBut all the sea is mystery,\\nFrom farthest shore to shore,\\nWhere white ships trip, and slip, and dip,\\nAnd dance across her floor.\\n17", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "AN EXILE\\nI am an exile, in disgrace,\\nAnd sorrow banished from her face\\nNow some such woe as mine, I ween,\\nNapoleon knew at Saint Helene.\\nI am an exile, fettered, ta en\\nTo deserts drear of her disdain\\nWill pity ne er her bosom stir\\nFor my high crime of loving her\\n18", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ONE DAY\\nUp the empurpled east behold\\nThe royal squadron of the sun,\\nO er ocean skies of blue and gold,\\nThe daily pilgrimage begun.\\nAcross the noon, and far away,\\nAsail on an imperial quest,\\nUntil the fleets at anchor lay\\nIn some still harbor down the west.\\n19", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "OUTWARD BOUND\\nWhen I am outward bound at last,\\nAbout my couch I pray,\\nNo ghosts of sins from out my past\\nWill drive my peace away.\\nI trust none come from out those years,\\nAnd my departure see,\\nOr whisper in my dying ears,\\nDost thou remember me\\n20", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "WITH OMAR IN THE ORIENT\\nI leave the western world to-day,\\nAnd ever eastward bear away\\nTo tropic Persia s land of palm,\\nOf attar, aloe, myrrh, and balm\\nAcross the mountain and the sea,\\nMy Pegasus shall carry me,\\nUntil I breathe the bloom and scent,\\nWith Omar in the Orient.\\nHis nightingale will sing to me\\nAll of the olden melody,\\nThe wind will rifle gardens sweet,\\nAnd rain the roses at my feet\\nHis verses underneath the bough,\\nThe loaf of bread, the wine, and Thou,\\nAll in one dream of beauty blent,\\nWith Omar in the Orient.\\n21", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Away with sorrow, grief, and care,\\nO, Saki, love and peace are there\\nAway with all the ghostly fears\\nThat low-browed Superstition rears\\nParwin, Mushtari, softly shine,\\nAnd light me onward to the shrine,\\nWhere I may pitch my happy tent,\\nWith Omar in the Orient.\\n22", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "TO HER\\nHer mind s a garden, where do grow\\nSweet thoughts like posies in a row\\nHer soul is as some lucent star,\\nThat shines upon us from afar\\nHer heart s an ocean, wide and deep,\\nWhere swirling waves of passion sweep,\\nAye, deeper than the deepest sea,\\nAnd wide as woman s mystery\\nO man, the mariner, beware\\nYet will I chance a shipwreck there.", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "AERE PERENNIUS\\nNations and men may pass away\\nA fragrant thought can never die\\nThe soul beneath its potent sway\\nAscends on high.\\nPoet, if thy dear verse doth hold\\nFast in its heart one truth sublime,\\nThere shall it gleam, a star of gold,\\nAnd outlive time.\\n24", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nLove is hot, and love is cold,\\nLove is gentle, love is bold,\\nLove can perish in a day,\\nO and love can last alway\\nLove hath rived my heart in twain,\\nLove hath healed the hurt again,\\nO sweet Love\\nLove is heaven, love is hell,\\nA dream, a truth, a miracle\\nLove doth ripple like a rill,\\nLove can roar the torrent still\\nHow can weakling words portray,\\nThat which over all hath sway,\\nO sweet Love\\n25", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "MY SOUL WAS THIRSTY\\nMy soul was thirsty till she came,\\nMy heart was hungry till her eyes\\nLighted love s fuel into flame\\nAnd taught me Paradise.\\nI hunger and I thirst no more;\\nLo, tis a fount w r here honey drips\\nI drink a thousand kisses from\\nThe chalice of her curved lips.\\n26", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "IN ENGLAND\\nThis is the England, this the earth,\\nThat gave majestic Milton birth\\nThis is the olden golden clime\\nOf lofty prose, of lilting rhyme\\nHere Poesy s pure soul was won\\nBy the sw T eet strains of Tennyson\\nFor him her eyes knew no eclipse,\\nAnd he might kiss her lyric lips\\nThis is great England here was wrought\\nThe noblest monument of thought\\nThat man e er builded up to God\\nOut of his bosom s sacred sod,\\nFor this the soil, and this the clime,\\nThat gave a Shakespeare to all time.\\n2 7", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "BEHIND THE SCENES\\nBehind the scenes the kings and queens\\nAre merely mortals Juliet leans,\\nA tired girl, against the screens,\\nBehind the scenes.\\nThe final act is on, and lo\\nThe loving heart of Romeo\\nMust crack with misery and woe;\\nThe noble Paris, too, shall die,\\nAnd tears spring up in every eye\\nThen exit all, while rogue and saint\\nAre scrubbing off the mask of paint,\\nBehind the scenes.\\n28", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE RIDE\\nLittle fellow, come to me,\\nFor a ride upon my knee\\nHere we go, so brisk and bright,\\nThrough the village of Delight,\\nUp the happy hill of Joy,\\nGoodness, what a heavy boy\\nDown through Merry, Cheery Lane,\\nNow we gallop home again.\\nWhat a canter we have had,\\nYou and I, my laughing lad\\nSuch sport one may only see\\nOn a tried and trusty knee\\nThere, dismount, thou roguish sprite,\\nHitch the horse up good and tight\\nNext time we will take a run\\nRound the bailiwick of Fun.\\n29", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "PARIS\\nThis is Paris, s il votes plait,\\nCareless, debonair, and gay,\\nLove and laughter, song and shout,\\nWomen, wine, and merry bout.\\nThis is Paris, le void,\\nMusic, mirth, and misery,\\nArt divine, and sodden shame,\\nGlory, poverty, and fame.\\nThis is Paris, ecoutez,\\nAfter night must come the day,\\nWeak, inconstant, yea, accurst,\\nFolly s bubble soon will burst.\\n30", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HEINE\\nA mattress grave, poor stricken Jew,\\nFor years his broken body knew,\\nHis pale brow wet with deadly dew,\\nA mattress grave.\\nBelow his prison place of pain,\\nThronged all the gay Parisian train,\\nAnd helpless in his attic room,\\nOf anguish, agony, and gloom,\\nThis wounded soul of song and wit,\\nPressed wearily through days of doom,\\nO, pity, grief, and woe of it,\\nA mattress grave\\n3i", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "PROCLAMATION\\nRobin in the red cravat,\\nWhen winter days are done,\\nA memorial meeting to\\nEmily Dickinson.\\nThe humming-bird and butterfly\\nWill tell of her and weep,\\nBut she can never heed them,\\nBeing just asleep.\\n32", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CYRANO SPEAKS\\nI, Cyrano de Bergerac,\\nCan have nor sleep, nor peace, alack\\nIn my poor semblance now they rage,\\nAnd fiercely strut upon the stage.\\nThe actors are a worthy crew,\\nCoquelin and Irving, Mansfield too.\\nI bid them all go hang and pack,\\nI, Cyrano de Bergerac.\\nI, Cyrano de Bergerac,\\nThe mimic world upon my track,\\nAh, rare Roxane, before all men\\nWe are impaled on Rostand s pen.\\nOnce every tumult filled my breast,\\nAnd now they will not let me rest,\\nBut I am dragged, unwilling, back,\\nI, Cyrano de Bergerac.\\n33", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nWhen nights are calm, and days are dear,\\nWhat can one do but sing\\nWhen happiness is everywhere,\\nWhat can one do but sing\\nThe mountains melt along the sky,\\nThe snowy pigeons circling fly,\\nA thousand visions kiss the eye,\\nWhat can one do but sing\\nWhen hope is throned in the heart,\\nWhat can one do but sing\\nWhen pity pleads, and sweet tears start,\\nWhat can one do but sing\\nA thousand lights are in the sky,\\nA thousand thoughts about me fly,\\nA thousand visions kiss mine eye,\\nWhat can I do but sing\\n34", "height": "4448", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE HEART OF GOD IN NATURE\\nI bear no ill to any hill,\\nI m brother to the trees,\\nMy mind doth melt to mountains,\\nAnd my soul doth seek the seas\\nI greet the sun uprising\\nWith a friendly, loving nod\\nWithin the breast of Nature\\nThrobs the heart of God.\\nTo me a star is not afar,\\nThe moon doth know my face,\\nI often dream beneath her beam,\\nAnd sue her sovereign grace\\nThe sky and air are very fair\\nQueen rose and golden-rod\\nWithin the breast of Nature\\nThrobs the heart of God.\\n35", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "A little day, and then away\\nUnto another shore\\nSome hasting years of bliss and tears,\\nThen Charon at the oar\\nWhatever cometh after\\nOur sojourn neath the sod,\\nWithin the breast of Nature\\nThrobs the heart of God.\\n36", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "RICHES\\nWhat to a man who loves the air\\nAre trinkets, gauds, and jewels rare\\nAnd what is wealth or fame to one\\nWho is a brother to the sun\\nWho drinks the wine that morning spills\\nUpon the heaven-kissing hills,\\nAnd sees a ray of hope afar\\nIn every glimmer of a star\\nWhat to a man whose god is truth\\nAre spoils and stratagems, forsooth\\nWho looks beyond the doors of death\\nFor loftier life, sublimer breath\\nWho can forswear the state of kings\\nIn knowledge of diviner things,\\nThe dreams immortal that unroll\\nAnd burst to blossom in his soul?\\n37", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "THE SECRET\\nOf one great secret Omar knew\\nLittle as I, as much as you\\nAnd Shakespeare s soul and Milton s brain\\nPerplexed paused at death s domain.\\nDear God, Who gave us thought and breath,\\nDivulge the mystery of death\\nWhat suns shall light, what waters lave,\\nThe mystic shores beyond the grave\\n38", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE SIREN CITY\\nParis sparkles as she lies,\\nAll unbosomed to the sun\\nFor the prize within her eyes\\nBattles have been lost and won.\\nShe is haughty, she is vain\\nIn her arms the serpent Seine,\\nAnd with wooing, cooing wiles,\\nParis dazzles, Paris smiles.\\nParis hath a mighty heart,\\nSiren of the cities she,\\nNobly wedded unto Art,\\nMusic, Marble, Poetry\\nHeedless, happy, night and day,\\nShe doth dance the years away.\\nWith her graces and her guiles,\\nParis loves, and dreams, and smiles.\\n39", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "A L OPERA\\nMusic swells my sluggish blood\\nTo a raging purple flood,\\nMusic rainbows on my brain\\nAll the vanished years again.\\nMusic in my soul doth stir\\nSleeping memories of her\\nCan nor time, nor any art,\\nDrive this woman from my heart\\n40", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE PICTURES\\nThis Corot is the Ville D Avray,\\nThat Rousseau is a prayer in gray,\\nThe Inness Landscape seems to me\\nA spot I knew in Normandy.\\nHere is Fromentin s Oasis,\\nJeanne D Arc by rare Rosetti this,\\nAnd now a Troyon, happy chance,\\nThat it should be, his Coast of France.\\nVan Dyck, Fortuny, Ziem, Dupre,\\nAll in immortal, brave array\\nThis last is living flesh aglow,\\nBreathed from the brush of Bouguereau.\\n41", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nWhen I an infant, peaceful lay\\nUpon my loving Mothers breast,\\nShe softly sung me, night and day,\\nSweet lullabies of faith and rest.\\nThrough all my youth, through all my years,\\nHer gentle songs have followed me,\\nThe tender fountain of my tears\\nLeaps up at their dear melody.\\nSo all my days are days of song,\\nAnd when shall come my life s eclipse,\\nO happy fate, to drift along\\nTo death with songs upon my lips.\\n42", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nI owe no map allegiance,\\nI am prince, I m king, I m czar,\\nMy courier winds bring odors\\nFrom Arabian fields afar\\nI drink the wine of sunset,\\nI drain the cup of noon,\\nDecember is a bliss to me,\\nAn ecstasy is June.\\nThe morning is a rapture,\\nThe midnight is a mood,\\nI sit at feasts of fancy,\\nWhere Gods confer the food\\nAnd then the vision passes,\\nFrom joy to grief and gloom,\\nAnd I see a Poet dying\\nIn a narrow little room.\\n43", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "LULLABY\\nSlip away to Slumber Land,\\nBaby, 0, my baby,\\nWeary little foot and hand,\\nBaby, 0, my baby\\nYou shall have a rattle, and\\nA woolly dog, a dragon grand\\nFinest fellow in the land,\\nBaby, O, my baby.\\nCuddle down and close your eyes,\\nBaby, O, my baby,\\nSee how snugly there he lies,\\nBaby, O, my baby\\nStars are peeping from the skies,\\nHow one so young can be so wise,\\nIs mightiest of mysteries,\\nBaby, O, my baby.\\n44", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "IF HONOR STAY\\nAll is not gone if Honor stay,\\nThough friends forsake, and foes betray,\\nThough torture rend thee limb from limb,\\nAnd faith is dead, and hope is dim.\\nIf on thy bosom s sacred throne,\\nThe Truth doth reign, supreme, alone,\\nAway thou bauble Life, away\\nNothing is gone if Honor stay.\\n45", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "THE POET S REALM\\nLittle fortune hath the Bard\\nBut a store of coined kisses,\\nWho can deem his doom so hard\\nWhen the Matrons and the Misses\\nPay him for songs with blisses\\nThey are taken with his eyes\\nAnd his saint-seducing sighs,\\nThey are ravished by the chimes\\nOf his silver-sounding rhymes,\\nAnd though man be unapproving,\\nEvery maid is sweet and loving\\nPoor, rich Poet, all his share\\nOf gold is in his Lady s hair\\nAll his diamonds, stars that rise\\nIn the evening of her eyes\\nCold and bare, his garret gleams\\nWith the lightning of his dreams,\\nDreams, dispelling fear and doubt,\\nDreams, that drive the hunger out\\nThough Fate oft may overwhelm,\\nKing is he of Fancy s realm.\\n4 6", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nIt s very, very queer the way\\nThey call this, Night, and that, the Day,\\nAnd then to parcel off the space,\\nAnd give each Week a little place.\\nAnd then reduce to months and years,\\nOur sorrows, blisses, hopes and fears\\nTis very, very strange to me,\\nThat such a foolish thing should be.\\nMy calendar and clock shall go,\\nI want no dates of joy or woe,\\nThe dawn and dusk together blend,\\nAnd stars shine out unto the end.\\nAnd this is all life is so sweet,\\nSo grand, so glorious and complete,\\nSo wrought of love and ecstacy,\\nNo man shall name my things for me.\\n47", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nI like no book whose hero goes\\nPage after page through desert prose,\\nAnd wanders wearily along,\\nFar from the happy hills of song.\\nFor me a heroine who trips\\nWith lilting lyrics on her lips,\\nAnd lovelight in her eyes sublime,\\nBy rippling rivulets of rhyme.\\n4 8", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ELDORADO\\nThe yellow thirst that maddens men,\\nDoth lead them over bog and fen,\\nThrough sullen seas to climes of cold,\\nWhere wait the fertile fields of gold.\\nO life, O love, O hope, O fate,\\nUnceasing ever, early, late,\\nWe see in dreams, by night, by day,\\nSome Eldorado far away.\\n49", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTAIN\\nWhat did the noble captain do,\\nFacing the death and dark,\\nSo many souls in jeopardy\\nOn his beloved bark\\nWhat did the fearless captain say,\\nOr e er he knew the worst\\nThe women and the children/\\nWas his order first.\\nDid he look up and calmly pray,\\nFacing the dark and din,\\nGod, let me die a thousand deaths,\\nBut moor my vessel in\\nSo", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nIf thou art not kind,\\nWhat will profit thee\\nWealth of purse or mind,\\nIf thou art not kind\\nGrief and misery\\nMust thy portion be,\\nIf, alas thy heart be blind\\nAnd, poor wight, thou art not kind.\\nKindness, and the earth is bright,\\nKindness, and the load is light,\\nKindness, and the weary way\\nLaughs with love and roundelay\\nKing is he in all his blood\\nWho is first in doing good\\nGod pity him whose heart is blind\\nAnd, alas who is not kind.", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "AT LETHE WHARF\\nAt Lethe wharf, what fleets of rhymes,\\nAnd books and tomes of bygone times,\\nForgotten crafts of many climes,\\nAt Lethe wharf.\\nA thousand Poets dreamed of bliss,\\nA thousand Poets felt the kiss,\\nThat Fame would press upon the brow,\\nBut where the silent squadron now\\nClose to a dismal sunken pier,\\nBlown by the winds of fate and fear,\\nThey ride the tide from year to year,\\nAt Lethe wharf.\\n52", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "A PRAYER\\nDear God these narrow, mouthing fools,\\nWho mewling prate their puny creeds\\nThese babes from theologic schools,\\nWho tell a throbbing world its needs.\\nThey howl and whine of Greek and Jew,\\nOf fiends below and saints above\\nThey rave a thousand tirades through\\nWithout a syllable of Love.\\nBut creed, and creed, and creed, and creed,\\nThat stifles heart, and soul, and mind\\nOut of Thy goodness and their need,\\nTeach them the gospel of the kind.\\n53", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Thy myriad races mercy sue,\\nBut here and there a solemn clown,\\nClaims heaven only for the few\\nWithin his little tribe and town.\\nDear God Dear God in Thy vast grace,\\nWho art the Father of a Host,\\nShall these blind zealots see Thy face,\\nAnd countless, loving billions lost\\n54", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "LINES AT SEA\\nThese are the laughing waves,\\nThis is the happy sea,\\nBelow are the coral caves,\\nAnd all is mystery.\\nOut of the dust we came,\\nUnto the dust we flee,\\nWeak, impotent, and lame,\\nO man, thou mystery\\n55", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "THE POET\\nHe dwells apart, the birds and bees\\nTell him their sweetest mysteries\\nFrom nature, tender, good, and true,\\nHe garners wisdom s honey-dew.\\nThe sky, the mountain, and the mead\\nAre precious books where he may read,\\nWrit in the sunshine, on the sod,\\nThe word, the thought, the love of God.\\n56", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DREAM KISSES\\nI slept, I dreamed I held her close,\\nAnd lavished kisses on her mouth,\\nFree as the lover wind bestows\\nOn maiden meadows in the south.\\nI slept, I dreamed, I waked to woe,\\nO dawn, O dark, O vast eclipse\\nI waked my lonely state to know,\\nHer moist dream kisses on my lips.\\n57", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "MOODS\\nTo-day my heart is warm as wine,\\nAnd riotous with bliss\\nTo-day within this soul of mine\\nThe sweetheart fancies kiss.\\nAnd yesterday from early dawn,\\nAt every coward breath,\\nA thousand demons urged me on\\nTo some impending death.\\n58", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "REVENGE\\nWith burning brain and heart of hate,\\nI sought my wronger, early, late,\\nAnd all the wretched night and day\\nMy dream and thought was slay, and slay.\\nMy better self rose uppermost,\\nThe beast within my bosom lost\\nItself in love peace from afar\\nShone o er me radiant like a star.\\nI slew my wronger with a deed,\\nA deed of love I made him bleed\\nWith kindnesses, I filled for years\\nHis soul with tenderness and tears.\\n59", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "A DEED\\nHe did a deed, a gracious deed\\nHe ministered to men in need\\nHe bound a wound, he spoke a word\\nThat God and every angel heard.\\nHe did a deed, a loving deed\\nOh, souls that suffer and that bleed,\\nHe did a deed, and on his way\\nA bird sang in his heart all day.\\n60", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "A GLASS OF TOKAY\\nIn land afar neath Autumn skies\\nSome singing girl with love-lit eyes,\\nPluck d from the heavy hanging vine\\nThe grapes that held this golden wine.\\nAnd I to-day, in after years,\\nTelling a truce to haunting fears,\\nHold the warm beaker to my lips\\nAnd kiss her blushing finger-tips.\\nHer happy laugh and careless song\\nThis mellow tide has cherished long,\\nAnd drinking deep, methinks her voice\\nFrom out its depths bids me rejoice.\\nAnd what would soothe thy cares and mine\\nSooner, O friend, than such rare wine,\\nWhose magic mirror holds in thrall\\nMaid, music, autumn skies, and all.\\n61", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "IDENTITY\\nTell me, after life,\\nWhat shall be\\nTell me, after strife,\\nOf death s mystery\\nFor weal or for woe,\\nBeyond the sky,\\nGod, let me know\\nThat I am I.\\n62", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nA sunshine heart,\\nAnd a soul of song,\\nLove for hate,\\nAnd right for wrong\\nSoftly speak to the weak,\\nHelp them along,\\nA sunshine heart,\\nAnd a soul of song.\\nA sunshine heart,\\nAnd a soul of song,\\nWhat though about thee\\nFoemen throng\\nAll the day, on thy way,\\nBe thou strong\\nA sunshine heart,\\nAnd a soul of song.\\n6S", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "THE POET S HERITAGE\\nSome men have wealth and vast estates,\\nAnd acres broad and palace gates,\\nOne is a prince and one a king,\\nAnd one an humble underling.\\nAnd lo the poet, what hath he,\\nThat he doth trudge so merrily\\nAbout his happy footsteps throng\\nA thousand little waifs of song.\\n6 4", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nMy office is on land and sea,\\nThe hours, all eternity\\nI get a message from the rill,\\nI send a letter to the hill,\\nAnd come an Alp or Apennine,\\nI claim him bosom friend of mine\\nFor very many years I ve known,\\nThe Arctic Belt, the Torrid Zone.\\nThe forests, lakes, the mountains, streams,\\nIVe seen them all in dreams, in dreams\\nI listen, and they whisper me\\nOf Light, of Life, Infinity\\nThe gulfs below, the stars above,\\nCome crying Love, and Love, and Love\\nSome morning when the compass veers,\\nI hope to meet some other spheres.\\n65", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "THE NEW BOY\\nHere s a health unto the boy,\\nHe s a jewel and a joy\\nBless his little footsy feet,\\nAint he cute, and aint he sweet\\nSee him fold his tiny fists,\\nCreased and wrinkled at the wrists,\\nHear him crow, and hear him coo,\\nBaby, here s a health to you\\nFather s happy, Mother s glad,\\nBlessings on the little lad\\nEyes of dawn, and tears of dew,\\nBaby, here s a health to you\\n66", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "LAST NIGHT\\nLast night I sojourned for a season brief\\nIn goodly company Hamlet the Dane\\nWas there, and sweet Ophelia once again\\nWept while she sang, her being rent with grief;\\nOthello came with Desdemona ere\\nIago s poison rankled in his heart\\nOrlando, swearing death should never part\\nHis soul from fairest Rosalind s, drew near\\nAnd then while mirth and revel reigned supreme,\\nAnd all my soul was glad, I oped mine eyes\\nAnd marvelled much that this was all a dream,\\nAnd my dear vision vanished to the skies\\nI waked to see my phantom friends no more,\\nMy Shakespeare lying closed upon the floor.\\n6 7", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "SONNET\\nLast night mad devils from an hundred hells\\nRan shrieking through my racked and fevered brain,\\nMy parched, enfeebled body throbbed with pain,\\nAnd wild eyes leered at me from dungeon cells\\nThe sky hung starless, and the earth lay dead,\\nA gulf beneath me, and the dark o erhead\\nThen a soft voice, sweeter than chiming bells,\\nSoothed every harsh, discordant note of woe,\\nAnd from green meadows, and from fragrant dells,\\nI felt again the cooling breezes blow\\nThe tempest in my soul became a calm,\\nGone all the anguish and the terror now,\\nFor bending o er me with her breath of balm,\\nMy dear Love sat, her hand upon my brow.\\n68", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nI am no politician,\\nI do not understand,\\nBut could I be Ambassador,\\nTd go to Nature land\\nBe friendly with the Forests,\\nAnd any ragged tree,\\nOr lonely rock, could tell its woes\\nWith confidence to me.\\nMake treaties with the sunsets,\\nThe flowers, birds, and bees,\\nWith raging, frantic oceans,\\nAnd smiling, happy seas\\nNo rare acute diplomacy\\nIs necessary here,\\nOne only needs to love them much,\\nAnd hold them very dear.\\n69", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "VOICES\\nThere are voices in the air crying, Come,\\nThey stir me like the magic of a drum,\\nOn the land and on the sea,\\nO my soul, let us be free,\\nVoices, voices, ever calling to me, Come.\\nThere are voices in the air calling, Come,\\nO the sealed eyes, and lips that are dumb,\\nJust to dream beneath the sky,\\nJust to live, and love, and die,\\nAnd the voices, O the voices, crying, Come.\\n70", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "MARIANNA ALCAFORADO\\n(LOVE-LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN.)\\nBetrayed, deserted, torn with Love,\\nAlas, poor nun of Beja,\\nHe was a wolf and thou a dove,\\nSweet trusting Nun of Beja\\nInto thy convent cote he came,\\nHe brought thee bliss, despair and shame,\\nAnd death, and everlasting fame,\\nDear love-lorn Nun of Beja.\\nWhen life s mad, burning day was done,\\nSad, hopeless Nun of Beja,\\nDidst thou, beyond the stars and sun,\\nTriumphant Nun of Beja,\\nThou who didst all thy soul resign,\\nFind that the highest bliss was thine,\\nImmortal through thy love divine,\\nUndying Nun of Beja\\n71", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "THE MYSTERY\\nI pray thee, Lord God, answer me,\\nThou madest man, and what is he\\nAnd if his soul survive the clay,\\nAnd cometh then, or night, or day\\nI pray thee, Lord God, answer me,\\nBehind, before, are mystery\\nAnd if man s spirit wings away,\\nAnd cometh then, or night, or day\\n72", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THIS COAT OF CLAY\\nThis coat of clay doth hinder me,\\nI should away, I would be free,\\nThis fickle flesh doth hold me here,\\nBetwixt a rapture and a fear.\\nO, brave new battles to be won,\\nBeyond the summit of the sun\\nI should away, I would be free,\\nThis happy dust detaineth me.\\n73", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "WAVES\\nThe waves have a merry day,\\nWhen the sun and sea are gay,\\nLaughing, leaping, climbing, clinging,\\nDancing, creeping, soaring, singing,\\nNow they lift their silver lips,\\nAnd their rain-bow tinted tips\\nMerry, merry is the day,\\nWhen the ocean is at play.\\nThe waves have a dreary night,\\nWith the ocean in affright,\\nRunning, raving, seething, scowling,\\nFrothing, foaming, hissing, howling,\\nThen beneath the tempest s breath,\\nShips and men go down to death\\nDreary, dreary is the night,\\nWith the ocean in affright.\\n74", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nIf thou art in a grievous mood,\\nSeek out some sylvan solitude,\\nTell all thy hearted woes and ills,\\nUnto the sympathetic hills,\\nOr to the sea, and hear her voice,\\nBidding thee conquer and rejoice;\\nThe mountain, valley, and the glen\\nWill lead thee to thyself again,\\nWill soothe thy sorrow, right thy wrong,\\nAnd kiss thy lips to sweetest song\\nO trust in Nature, love but her,\\nThe best, the wisest comforter.\\n75", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nI heard a bird flood all the night\\nWith strains of rapture and delight,\\nThe leaves leaned low to listen, and\\nThe sleepy trees could understand.\\nMany the birds and folk by day,\\nSing when the golden world is gay\\nBut, O my heart, the men of might,\\nWho bravely sing through sorrow s night\\n7 6", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "TO ELIZABETH\\nElizabeth, Elizabeth,\\nThy lips might lure a man to death,\\nThy face, thy form, thy bosom s swell,\\nMight tempt a man to happy hell.\\nAnd yet if for some grace of thine,\\nHe should his soul to woe resign,\\nThy sweet eyes wet with tearful rain,\\nWould lead him heavenward again.\\n77", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "THIS WOULD BE A BLESSED DAY\\nThis would be a blessed day,\\nIf a verse would pass my way,\\nIf a rose-leaf rhyme would drip\\nAll its dew upon my lip,\\nCome in tender, loving guise,\\nMake a river of mine eyes,\\nCircle in the air and rest\\nIn the bastion of my breast.\\nMuse, dear Muse, O bring to me\\nOne deep draught of Poetry,\\nI am thirsting and I long\\nFor a flagon full of song,\\nMuse, dear Muse, without thine art\\nMidnight hovers o er my heart,\\nHell were heaven with thee, and\\nWithout thee, earth is arid land.\\nThis would be a blessed day,\\nIf a verse would pass my way.\\n78", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "WRATH AND LOVE\\nWrath is a wrinkled hag, hell-born,\\nHer heart is hate, her soul is scorn,\\nBlinded with blood, she can not see\\nTo do a deed of charity.\\nLove is a maiden young and fair,\\nShe kissed the brow of dumb despair\\nTill comfort came ah, love is she,\\nWhose other name is Charity.\\n79", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nA knitter in the sun is one\\nWho weaves the tangled threads of thought\\nInto a perfect robe of rhyme,\\nWho blends the multi-colored words\\nTo one harmonious whole\\nAnd then if he hath wisely wrought,\\nAnd garnered in the fields of thyme,\\nHath caught the carol of the birds\\nTo echo ever in his soul,\\nO joy unspeakable for one,\\nWho is a knitter in the sun.\\n80", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "LINES\\nPoet, Poet, enter in,\\nGuiltless be thy soul of sin,\\nA double blessing on thy brow,\\nHoly is the moment now.\\nPoet, this should be to thee,\\nThe sweetest sanctuary,\\nRarest day twixt life and death,\\nWhen mind of man travaileth.\\nPoet, Poet, enter in,\\nFollow faithful, thou shalt win,\\nGod hath sworn to give to thee\\nDeathless immortality.\\n6 81", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "Poet, in thy days of youth,\\nBanish error, worship truth,\\nWhen thou art infirm and old,\\nHappiness shall thee enfold.\\nPoet, Poet, enter in,\\nThou art priest and paladin,\\nWho hath fear of hell or death,\\nWhen mind of man travaileth\\n82", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "ALL ATONING END\\nI am so overwhelmed with shame,\\nFor evil I have done,\\nI hate the sound of my vile name,\\nO weak, unworthy son\\nO erwhelmed with grief and shame am I,\\nDear God, I pray Thee send\\nMe some white deed in which to die\\nAn all atoning end.\\n83", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "IN PINK AND WHITE\\nIn pink and white the orchards lie,\\nFragrant beneath an April sky,\\nThe golden summer draweth nigh\\nIn pink and white.\\nA robin in an apple-tree,\\nIs carolling in ecstasy\\nAnd O puissant heart of me,\\nThat little recks of fate or fear,\\nFor Preciosa s cheek is near,\\nWhere blushes blossom all the year\\nIn pink and white.\\n8 4", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE POET S SOUL\\nWithin his soul are singing birds\\nAnd diamond thoughts and golden words,\\nMountains, meadows, lowing herds,\\nWithin his soul\\nAnd joy and sorrow, darkness, light,\\nSunshine and shadow, day and night,\\nHatred of wrong and love of right\\nAnd one eternal, constant prayer,\\nA hunger and a thirst are there,\\nFor deathless deeds to do, to dare\\nWithin his soul.\\n85", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "LEPERS\\nUnclean Unclean the wretched lepers cry,\\nUnclean Unclean O mortal, come not nigh,\\nNor touch our garments, lest the dread disease\\nDoom thee to death and untold agonies/\\nAnd thou and I, base moral lepers, vile,\\nWho greet the righteous with a conscious smile,\\nWe deem our grained spots unknown, unseen,\\nThou, thou, and I, should stand and cry, Unclean\\n86", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nThe valiant sun leaps up the east,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\nDeath is the dessert to life s feast,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\nOver the arching, lucent sky\\nGay cloud craft are sailing by,\\nWe love, we weep, we dream, we die,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\nYouth is hasty, age is slow,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\nInto the night we groping go,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\nAfter the darkness cometh light,\\nWrong shall captive be to right,\\nMine eye is fixed on the height,\\nSoul of myself be strong\\n87", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "NOT WITH FEAR\\nThe poet hath no fear of death,\\nNor any fear of life\\nThe poet with his honey breath\\nDoth drown the strains of strife\\nAnd only when his muse is near\\nThe poet trembles not with fear.\\nThe poet hath no fear of man,\\nNor any fear of hell\\nHis soldier-soul doth boldly plan\\nTo conquer, to excel\\nBut when his worshipped muse is near\\nThe poet trembles not with fear.\\n88", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "SONG\\nMy lyric pen is palsied when\\nSome sin is heavy on my soul,\\nWhen conscience, dun as murky night,\\nRebels against my wrong of right,\\nProclaims me traitor in the fight,\\nAnd all unworthy of the goal,\\nSome demon daunts my lyric pen.\\nMy lyric pen is swiftest when\\nA light illumineth my heart,\\nSome sense serene of duty done,\\nSome noble enterprise begun,\\nA foe forgiven, battle won\\nOh, then with an immortal art\\nAn angel speeds my lyric pen.\\n8 9", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "FROM DEVONSHIRE\\nFrom Devonshire these roses came,\\nWith souls of sweetness, hearts of flame,\\nThey bear a message mute frae hame\\nFrom Devonshire.\\nTo thee each petal must recall,\\nSome memory that doth enthrall,\\nOf England, blown across her wall\\nTo me they mirror in my mind,\\nWarm with the wooing of the wind,\\nAnother rose of womankind,\\nFrom Devonshire.\\n90", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "TREES\\nThe trees within the wood,\\nAre patient, wise, and good,\\nThey light the forest aisles\\nIn the summer with their smiles,\\nAnd in winter-time they know\\nAll the glory of the snow\\nEvery bird may build and brood,\\nIn the trees within the wood.\\nThe trees within the wood,\\nAre much misunderstood,\\nThey are beautiful and kind\\nTo the fickle-minded wind\\nThey are fondly gazed upon\\nBy the yellow, mellow sun\\nThere is fuel, there is food,\\nFrom the trees within the wood.\\n91", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "The trees within the wood\\nAre of every hue and mood,\\nSome are solemn, some are gay,\\nSome prefer the night to day\\nWhen I transmigrate I ll be\\nJust a mighty monarch tree,\\nLofty, and of royal blood,\\nGrowing great within the wood.\\n92", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "GRIEF\\nGrief came by and beckoned me,\\n(Pity my bleeding eyes,)\\nI was buoyant, young, and free,\\nNow am I wounds and sighs\\nGrief called out O, Ho O, Ho\\nWhat dost thou know to tell of woe\\nLet me but clutch thee so, and so\\n(Pity my sunken eyes.)\\nGrief on me hath set his seal,\\n(Pity my poor dim eyes,)\\nThese old wounds so slowly heal,\\nIn days of youth be wise\\nHere, pale Sorrow, face me fair,\\nI ll fight thy legions of despair,\\nUntil no enemy is there,\\nDespite my sightless eyes.\\n93", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "TO THEE\\nAt first, at last, at birth, at death,\\nWe come to Thee,\\nStill let us with our latest breath,\\nSing praises to Thee\\nBy day, by night, through storm and calm,\\nWe come to Thee.\\nO let our life be one sweet psalm,\\nTo Thee, to Thee.\\nii\\nFather, when pain and anguish are,\\nWe come to Thee,\\nA good deed shineth like a star,\\nTo Thee, to Thee,\\nOver the narrow span of years,\\nWe come to Thee,\\nAfter the sorrow and the tears,\\nTo Thee, to Thee.\\n94", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nOur souls have known the dark travail,\\nWe come to Thee,\\nSun, moon, and stars, their faces pale,\\nTo Thee, to Thee,\\nDear God, the journey s end is near,\\nWe come to Thee,\\nIn faith and love, without a fear,\\nTo Thee, to Thee.\\n95", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "POEMS\\nBY ROBERT LOVEMAN\\ni2mo. Cloth, $1.00\\nA charming bouquet of lyrics/ Boston Courier.\\nThere is music in his lines. St. Louis Republic.\\nA carver of cameos. Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.\\nWrought out by a hand skilled in the craft. Louisville\\nCourier-Journal.\\nWe welcome this man of few words, this poet of the art\\nbrief, as a new and much-needed master. Cincinnati Tri-\\nThe music of Mr. Loveman s verse is so sweet that one\\nfeels constrained to linger over his lines. Philadelphia\\nBulletin.\\nReal poems every one. If the reader stops to ponder,\\nhe will find them taking hold of him and repeating them-\\nselves in his ears and heart. N. Y. World.\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nJ. B. Lippincott Company\\nPhiladelphia\\n1897", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4406", "width": "2494", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "MAY 29 i90Q\\nDeacidified using the Bookkeeper process.\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: Sept. 2009\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION\\n111 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township, PA 16066\\n(724)779-2111", "height": "4433", "width": "2578", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4413", "width": "2557", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4567", "width": "2783", "jp2-path": "bookofverses00love_0104.jp2"}}