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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay.
And serve the potter as he turns his wheel,
I thank thee for the precious gift of tears!
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser’s coins!
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)