[ { "title": "Not at Home to Callers", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Not at Home to Callers", "Says the Naked Tree --", "Bonnet due in April --", "Wishing you Good Day --" ], "linecount": "4" }, { "title": "Lines Written From Home", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground", "With fallen leaves so thickly strown,", "And cold the wind that wanders round", "With wild and melancholy moan;", "There is a friendly roof, I know,", "Might shield me from the wintry blast;", "There is a fire, whose ruddy glow", "Will cheer me for my wanderings past.", "", "And so, though still, where'er I go,", "Cold stranger-glances meet my eye;", "Though, when my spirit sinks in woe,", "Unheeded swells the unbidden sigh;", "", "Though solitude, endured too long,", "Bids youthful joys too soon decay,", "Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue,", "And overclouds my noon of day;", "", "When kindly thoughts, that would have way,", "Flow back discouraged to my breast; --", "I know there is, though far away,", "A home where heart and soul may rest.", "", "Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine,", "The warmer heart will not belie;", "While mirth, and truth, and friendship shine", "In smiling lip and earnest eye.", "", "The ice that gathers round my heart", "May there be thawed; and sweetly, then,", "The joys of youth, that now depart,", "Will come to cheer my soul again.", "", "Though far I roam, that thought shall be", "My hope, my comfort, everywhere;", "While such a home remains to me,", "My heart shall never know despair!" ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "Home", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "How brightly glistening in the sun", "The woodland ivy plays!", "While yonder beeches from their barks", "Reflect his silver rays.", "That sun surveys a lovely scene", "From softly smiling skies;", "And wildly through unnumbered trees", "The wind of winter sighs:", "", "Now loud, it thunders o'er my head,", "And now in distance dies.", "But give me back my barren hills", "Where colder breezes rise;", "", "Where scarce the scattered, stunted trees", "Can yield an answering swell,", "But where a wilderness of heath", "Returns the sound as well.", "", "For yonder garden, fair and wide,", "With groves of evergreen,", "Long winding walks, and borders trim,", "And velvet lawns between;", "", "Restore to me that little spot,", "With grey walls compassed round,", "Where knotted grass neglected lies,", "And weeds usurp the ground.", "", "Though all around this mansion high", "Invites the foot to roam,", "And though its halls are fair within --", "Oh, give me back my HOME!" ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "At Home", "author": "Christina Rossetti", "lines": [ "When I was dead, my spirit turned", "To seek the much-frequented house:", "I passed the door, and saw my friends", "Feasting beneath green orange boughs;", "From hand to hand they pushed the wine,", "They sucked the pulp of plum and peach;", "They sang, they jested, and they laughed,", "For each was loved of each.", "", "I listened to thier honest chat:", "Said one: \"To-morrow we shall be", "Plod plod along the featureless sands,", "And coasting miles and miles of sea.\"", "Said one: \"Before the turn of tide", "We will achieve the eyrie-seat.\"", "Said one: \"To-morrow shall be like", "To-day, but much more sweet.\"", "", "\"To-morrow,\" said they, strong with hope,", "And dwelt upon the pleasant way:", "\"To-morrow,\" cried they, one and all,", "While no one spoke of yesterday.", "Their life stood full at blessed noon;", "I, only I, had passed away:", "\"To-morrow and to-day,\" they cried;", "I was of yesterday.", "", "I shivered comfortless, but cast", "No chill across the table-cloth;", "I, all-forgotten, shivered, sad", "To stay, and yet to part how loth:", "I passed from the familiar room,", "I who from love had passed away,", "Like the remembrance of a guest", "That tarrieth but a day." ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "The Wrong Way Home", "author": "Edward Taylor", "lines": [ "All night a door floated down the river.", "It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure", "from its former life, like the time the lovers", "leaned against it kissing for hours", "and whispering those famous words.", "Later, there were harsh words and a shoe", "was thrown and the door was slammed.", "Comings and goings by the thousands,", "the early mornings and late nights, years, years.", "O they've got big plans, they'll make a bundle.", "The door was an island that swayed in its sleep.", "The moon turned the doorknob just slightly,", "burned its fingers and ran,", "and still the door said nothing and slept.", "At least that's what they like to say,", "the little fishes and so on.", "Far away, a bell rang, and then a shot was fired." ], "linecount": "17" }, { "title": "Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead", "Came the Darker Way --", "Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- too --", "But for Holiday", "", "'Tis more pitiful Endeavor", "Than did Loaded Sea", "O'er the Curls attempt to caper", "It had cast away --", "", "Never Bride had such Assembling --", "Never kinsmen kneeled", "To salute so fair a Forehead --", "Garland be indeed --", "", "Fitter Feet -- of Her before us --", "Than whatever Brow", "Art of Snow -- or Trick of Lily", "Possibly bestow", "", "Of Her Father -- Whoso ask Her --", "He shall seek as high", "As the Palm -- that serve the Desert --", "To obtain the Sky --", "", "Distance -- be Her only Motion --", "If 'tis Nay -- or Yes --", "Acquiescence -- or Demurral --", "Whosoever guess --", "", "He -- must pass the Crystal Angle", "That obscure Her face --", "He -- must have achieved in person", "Equal Paradise --" ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "I never felt at Home -- Below", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "I never felt at Home -- Below --", "And in the Handsome Skies", "I shall not feel at Home -- I know --", "I don't like Paradise --", "", "Because it's Sunday -- all the time --", "And Recess -- never comes --", "And Eden'll be so lonesome", "Bright Wednesday Afternoons --", "", "If God could make a visit --", "Or ever took a Nap --", "So not to see us -- but they say", "Himself -- a Telescope", "", "Perennial beholds us --", "Myself would run away", "From Him -- and Holy Ghost -- and All --", "But there's the \"Judgement Day\"!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "I Years had been from Home", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "I Years had been from Home", "And now before the Door", "I dared not enter, lest a Face", "I never saw before", "", "Stare solid into mine", "And ask my Business there --", "\"My Business but a Life I left", "Was such remaining there?\"", "", "I leaned upon the Awe --", "I lingered with Before --", "The Second like an Ocean rolled", "And broke against my ear --", "", "I laughed a crumbling Laugh", "That I could fear a Door", "Who Consternation compassed", "And never winced before.", "", "I fitted to the Latch", "My Hand, with trembling care", "Lest back the awful Door should spring", "And leave me in the Floor --", "", "Then moved my Fingers off", "As cautiously as Glass", "And held my ears, and like a Thief", "Fled gasping from the House --" ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Where Thou art -- that -- is Home --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Where Thou art -- that -- is Home --", "Cashmere -- or Calvary -- the same --", "Degree -- or Shame --", "I scarce esteem Location's Name --", "So I may Come --", "", "What Thou dost -- is Delight --", "Bondage as Play -- be sweet --", "Imprisonment -- Content --", "And Sentence -- Sacrament --", "Just We two -- meet --", "", "Where Thou art not -- is Woe --", "Tho' Bands of Spices -- row --", "What Thou dost not -- Despair --", "Tho' Gabriel -- praise me -- Sire --" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "I learned -- at least -- what Home could be --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "I learned -- at least -- what Home could be --", "How ignorant I had been", "Of pretty ways of Covenant --", "How awkward at the Hymn", "", "Round our new Fireside -- but for this --", "This pattern -- of the Way --", "Whose Memory drowns me, like the Dip", "Of a Celestial Sea --", "", "What Mornings in our Garden -- guessed --", "What Bees -- for us -- to hum --", "With only Birds to interrupt", "The Ripple of our Theme --", "", "And Task for Both --", "When Play be done --", "Your Problem -- of the Brain --", "And mine -- some foolisher effect --", "A Ruffle -- or a Tune --", "", "The Afternoons -- Together spent --", "And Twilight -- in the Lanes --", "Some ministry to poorer lives --", "Seen poorest -- thro' our gains --", "", "And then Return -- and Night -- and Home --", "", "And then away to You to pass --", "A new -- diviner -- care --", "Till Sunrise take us back to Scene --", "Transmuted -- Vivider --", "", "This seems a Home --", "And Home is not --", "But what that Place could be --", "Afflicts me -- as a Setting Sun --", "Where Dawn -- knows how to be --" ], "linecount": "31" }, { "title": "By homely gift and hindered Words", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "By homely gift and hindered Words", "The human heart is told", "Of Nothing --", "\"Nothing\" is the force", "That renovates the World --" ], "linecount": "5" }, { "title": "Tho' I get home how late -- how late", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Tho' I get home how late -- how late --", "So I get home - 'twill compensate --", "Better will be the Ecstasy", "That they have done expecting me --", "When Night -- descending -- dumb -- and dark --", "They hear my unexpected knock --", "Transporting must the moment be --", "Brewed from decades of Agony!", "", "To think just how the fire will burn --", "Just how long-cheated eyes will turn --", "To wonder what myself will say,", "And what itself, will say to me --", "Beguiles the Centuries of way!" ], "linecount": "13" }, { "title": "To her derided Home", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "To her derided Home", "A Weed of Summer came --", "She did not know her station low", "Nor Ignominy's Name --", "Bestowed a summer long", "Upon a frameless flower --", "Then swept as lightly from disdain", "As Lady from her Bower --", "", "Of Bliss the Codes are few --", "As Jesus cites of Him --", "\"Come unto me\" the moiety", "That wafts the Seraphim --" ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "Away from Home are some and I --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Away from Home are some and I --", "An Emigrant to be", "In a Metropolis of Homes", "Is easy, possibly --", "", "The Habit of a Foreign Sky", "We -- difficult -- acquire", "As Children, who remain in Face", "The more their Feet retire." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "The fairest Home I ever knew", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "The fairest Home I ever knew", "Was founded in an Hour", "By Parties also that I knew", "A spider and a Flower --", "A manse of mechlin and of Floes --" ], "linecount": "5" }, { "title": "Death leaves Us homesick, who behind,", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Death leaves Us homesick, who behind,", "Except that it is gone", "Are ignorant of its Concern", "As if it were not born.", "", "Through all their former Places, we", "Like Individuals go", "Who something lost, the seeking for", "Is all that's left them, now --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "The feet of people walking home", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "The feet of people walking home", "With gayer sandals go --", "The Crocus -- til she rises", "The Vassal of the snow --", "The lips at Hallelujah", "Long years of practise bore", "Til bye and bye these Bargemen", "Walked singing on the shore.", "", "Pearls are the Diver's farthings", "Extorted from the Sea --", "Pinions -- the Seraph's wagon", "Pedestrian once -- as we --", "Night is the morning's Canvas", "Larceny -- legacy --", "Death, but our rapt attention", "To Immortality.", "", "My figures fail to tell me", "How far the Village lies --", "Whose peasants are the Angels --", "Whose Cantons dot the skies --", "My Classics veil their faces --", "My faith that Dark adores --", "Which from its solemn abbeys", "Such ressurection pours." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "He told a homely tale", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "He told a homely tale", "And spotted it with tears --", "Upon his infant face was set", "The Cicatrice of years --", "", "All crumpled was the cheek", "No other kiss had known", "Than flake of snow, divided with", "The Redbreast of the Barn --", "", "If Mother -- in the Grave --", "Or Father -- on the Sea --", "Or Father in the Firmament --", "Or Brethren, had he --", "", "If Commonwealth below,", "Or Commonwealth above", "Have missed a Barefoot Citizen --", "I've ransomed it -- alive --" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "To Homer", "author": "John Keats", "lines": [ "Standing aloof in giant ignorance,", " Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,", "As one who sits ashore and longs perchance", " To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.", "So thou wast blind;--but then the veil was rent,", " For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,", "And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,", " And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;", "Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,", " And precipices show untrodden green,", "There is a budding morrow in midnight,", " There is a triple sight in blindness keen;", "Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel", "To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer", "author": "John Keats", "lines": [ "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,", " And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;", " Round many western islands have I been", "Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.", "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told", " That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;", " Yet did I never breathe its pure serene", "Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:", "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies", " When a new planet swims into his ken;", "Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes", " He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men", "Look'd at each other with a wild surmise--", " Silent, upon a peak in Darien." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead", "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "lines": [ "Home they brought her warrior dead:", "She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:", "All her maidens, watching, said,", "‘She must weep or she will die.’", "", "Then they praised him, soft and low,", "Called him worthy to be loved,", "Truest friend and noblest foe;", "Yet she neither spoke nor moved.", "", "Stole a maiden from her place,", "Lightly to the warrior stepped,", "Took the face-cloth from the face;", "Yet she neither moved nor wept.", "", "Rose a nurse of ninety years,", "Set his child upon her knee—", "Like summer tempest came her tears—", "‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead", "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "lines": [ "Home they brought her warrior dead:", "She nor swoon'd nor utter'd cry:", "All her maidens, watching, said,", "\"She must weep or she will die.\"", "Then they praised him, soft and low,", "Call'd him worthy to be loved,", "Truest friend and noblest foe;", "Yet she neither spoke nor moved.", "Stole a maiden from her place,", "Lightly to the warrior stepped,", "Took the face-cloth from the face;", "Yet she neither moved nor wept.", "", "Rose a nurse of ninety years,", "Set his child upon her knee--", "Like summer tempest came her tears--", "\"Sweet my child, I live for thee.\"" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "The Widow's Home", "author": "Robinson", "lines": [ "Close on the margin of a brawling brook", "That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot;", "O'ershadow'd by broad Alders. At its door", "A rude seat, with an ozier canopy", "Invites the weary traveller to rest.", "'Tis a poor humble dwelling; yet within,", "The sweets of joy domestic, oft have made", "The long hour not unchearly, while the Moor", "Was covered with deep snow, and the bleak blast", "Swept with impetuous wing the mountain's brow!", "On ev'ry tree of the near shelt'ring wood", "The minstrelsy of Nature, shrill and wild,", "Welcomes the stranger guest, and carolling", "Love-songs, spontaneous, greets him merrily.", "The distant hills, empurpled by the dawn", "And thinly scatter'd with blue mists that float", "On their bleak summits dimly visible,", "Skirt the domain luxuriant, while the air", "Breathes healthful fragrance. On the Cottage roof", "The gadding Ivy, and the tawny Vine", "Bind the brown thatch, the shelter'd winter-hut", "Of the tame Sparrow, and the Red-breast bold.", "", "There dwells the Soldier's Widow! young and fair", "Yet not more fair than virtuous. Every day", "She wastes the hour-glass, waiting his return,--", "And every hour anticipates the day,", "(Deceiv'd, yet cherish'd by the flatt'rer hope)", "When she shall meet her Hero. On the Eve", "Of Sabbath rest, she trims her little hut", "With blossoms, fresh and gaudy, still, herself", "The queen-flow'r of the garland ! The sweet Rose", "Of wood-wild beauty, blushing thro' her tears.", "", "One little Son she has, a lusty Boy,", "The darling of her guiltless, mourning heart,", "The only dear and gay associate", "Of her lone widowhood. His sun-burnt cheek", "Is never blanch'd with fear, though he will climb", "The broad oak's branches, and with brawny arm", "Sever the limpid wave. In his blue eye", "Beams all his mother's gentleness of soul;", "While his brave father's warm intrepid heart", "Throbs in his infant bosom. 'Tis a wight", "Most valourous, yet pliant as the stem", "Of the low vale-born lily, when the dew", "Presses its perfum'd head. Eight years his voice", "Has chear'd the homely hut, for he could lisp", "Soft words of filial fondness, ere his feet", "Could measure the smooth path-way.", "On the hills", "He watches the wide waste of wavy green", "Tissued with orient lustre, till his eyes", "Ache with the dazzling splendour, and the main,", "Rolling and blazing, seems a second Sun !", "And, if a distant whitening sail appears,", "Skimming the bright horizon while the mast", "Is canopied with clouds of dappled gold,", "He homeward hastes rejoicing. An old Tree", "Is his lone watch-tow'r; 'tis a blasted Oak", "Which, from a vagrant Acorn, ages past,", "Sprang up, to triumph like a Savage bold", "Braving the Season's warfare. There he sits", "Silent and musing the long Evening hour,", "'Till the short reign of Sunny splendour fades", "At the cold touch of twilight. Oft he sings;", "Or from his oaten pipe, untiring pours", "The tune mellifluous which his father sung,", "When HE could only listen.", "On the sands", "That bind the level sea-shore, will he stray,", "When morn unlocks the East, and flings afar", "The rosy day-beam ! There the boy will stop", "To gather the dank weeds which ocean leaves", "On the bleak strand, while winter o'er the main", "Howls its nocturnal clamour. There again", "He chaunts his Father's ditty. Never more", "Poor mountain minstrel, shall thy bosom throb", "To the sweet cadence ! never more thy tear", "Fall as the dulcet breathings give each word", "Expression magical ! Thy Father, Boy,", "Sleeps on the bed of death ! His tongue is mute,", "His fingers have forgot their pliant art,", "His oaten pipe will ne'er again be heard", "Echoing along the valley ! Never more", "Will thy fond mother meet the balmy smile", "Of peace domestic, or the circling arm", "Of valour, temper'd by the milder joys", "Of rural merriment. His very name", "Is now forgotten! for no trophied tomb", "Tells of his bold exploits; such heraldry", "Befits not humble worth: For pomp and praise", "Wait in the gilded palaces of Pride", "To dress Ambition's Slaves. Yet, on his grave,", "The unmark'd resting place of Valour's Sons,", "The morning beam shines lust'rous; The meek flow'r", "Still drops the twilight tear, and the night breeze", "Moans melancholy music!", "Then, to ME,", "O ! dearer far is the poor Soldier's grave,", "The Widow's lone and unregarded Cot,", "The brawling Brook, and the wide Alder-bough,", "The ozier Canopy, and plumy choir,", "Hymning the Morn's return, than the rich Dome", "Of gilded Palaces ! and sweeter far--", "O! far more graceful ! far more exquisite,", "The Widow's tear bathing the living rose,", "Than the rich ruby, blushing on the breast,", "Of guilty greatness. Welcome then to me--", "The WIDOW'S LOWLY HOME : The Soldier's HEIR;", "The proud inheritor of Heav'n's best gifts--", "The mind unshackled--and the guiltless Soul!" ], "linecount": "110" }, { "title": "Come Home!", "author": "Mary Elizabeth Coleridge", "lines": [ "When wintry winds are no more heard,", "And joy's in every bosom,", "When summer sings in every bird,", "And shines in every blossom,", "When happy twilight hours are long,", "Come home, my love, and think no wrong!", "", "When berries gleam above the stream", "And half the fields are yellow,", "Come back to me, my joyous dream,", "The world hath not thy fellow!", "And I will make thee Queen among", "The Queens of summer and of song." ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "Home-Thoughts, From the Sea", "author": "Robert Browning", "lines": [ "Nobly, nobly, Cape Saint Vincent to the Northwest died away;", "Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;", "Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;", "", "In the dimmest Northeast distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray;", "\"Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?\"--say,", "Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God and pray,", "While Jove's planet rises yonder, silent over Africa." ], "linecount": "7" }, { "title": "Home Thoughts, From Abroad", "author": "Robert Browning", "lines": [ "Oh, to be in England", "Now that April's there,", "And whoever wakes in England", "Sees, some morning, unaware,", "That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf", "Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,", "While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough", "In England--now!", "", "And after April, when May follows,", "And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows!", "Hark I where my blossomed pear tree in the hedge", "Leans to the field and scatters on the clover", "Blossoms and dewdrops--at the bent spray's edge--", "That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,", "Lest you should think he never could recapture", "The first fine careless rapture!", "And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,", "All will be gay when noontide wakes anew", "The buttercups, the little children's dower", "--Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!" ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "To the Right Honourable Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland", "", "Come, sons of summer, by whose toil", "We are the lords of wine and oil;", "By whose tough labours, and rough hands,", "We rip up first, then reap our lands.", "Crown'd with the ears of corn, now come,", "And to the pipe sing Harvest Home.", "Come forth, my lord, and see the cart", "Dress'd up with all the country art.", "See, here a malkin, there a sheet,", "As spotless pure, as it is sweet;", "The horses, mares, and frisking fillies,", "(Clad, all, in linen, white as lilies.)", "The harvest swains and wenches bound", "For joy, to see the Hock-cart crown'd.", "About the cart, hear, how the rout", "Of rural younglings raise the shout;", "Pressing before, some coming after,", "Those with a shout, and these with laughter.", "Some bless the cart; some kisses the sheaves;", "Some prank them up with oaken leaves;", "Some cross the fill-horse; some with great", "Devotion, stroke the home-borne wheat;", "While other rustics, less attent", "To prayers than to merriment,", "Run after with their breeches rent.", "Well, on, brave boys, to your lord's hearth,", "Glitt'ring with fire, where, for your mirth,", "Ye shall see first the large and chief", "Foundation of your feast, fat beef,", "With upper stories, mutton, veal,", "And bacon, (which makes full the meal)", "With sev'ral dishes standing by,", "As here a custard, there a pie,", "And here all tempting frumenty.", "And for to make the merry cheer,", "If smirking wine be wanting here,", "There's that which drowns all care, stout beer,", "Which freely drink to your lord's health,", "Then to the plough, (the common-wealth)", "Next to your flails, your fanes, your fats;", "Then to the maids with wheaten hats;", "To the rough sickle and crook'd scythe,", "Drink frolic boys, till all be blythe.", "Feed and grow fat; and as ye eat,", "Be mindful, that the lab'ring neat", "(As you) may have their fill of meat", "And know, besides, ye must revoke", "The patient ox unto the yoke,", "And all go back unto the plough", "And harrow, (though they're hang'd up now.)", "And, you must know, your lord's word's true,", "Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.", "And that this pleasure is like rain,", "Not sent ye for to drown your pain,", "But for to make it spring again." ], "linecount": "56" }, { "title": "To Friends At Home", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "lines": [ "TO friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost", "The gracious old, the lovely young, to May", "The fair, December the beloved,", "These from my blue horizon and green isles,", "These from this pinnacle of distances I,", "The unforgetful, dedicate." ], "linecount": "6" }, { "title": "Home, My Little Children, Hear Are Songs For You", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "lines": [ "COME, my little children, here are songs for you;", "Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.", "You must learn to sing them very small and clear,", "Very true to time and tune and pleasing to the ear.", "", "Mark the note that rises, mark the notes that fall,", "Mark the time when broken, and the swing of it all.", "So when night is come, and you have gone to bed,", "All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Home", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "lines": [ "I came back late and tired last night", "Into my little room,", "To the long chair and the firelight", "And comfortable gloom.", "", "But as I entered softly in", "I saw a woman there,", "The line of neck and cheek and chin,", "The darkness of her hair,", "The form of one I did not know", "Sitting in my chair.", "", "I stood a moment fierce and still,", "Watching her neck and hair.", "I made a step to her; and saw", "That there was no one there.", "", "It was some trick of the firelight", "That made me see her there.", "It was a chance of shade and light", "And the cushion in the chair.", "", "Oh, all you happy over the earth,", "That night, how could I sleep?", "I lay and watched the lonely gloom;", "And watched the moonlight creep", "From wall to basin, round the room,", "All night I could not sleep." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Longings for Home.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "lines": [ "O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South!", "O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!", "O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was", " born—the", " grains,", " plants, rivers;", "Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery", " sands,", " or", " through swamps;", "Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee,", " the", " Coosa, and the Sabine;", "O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my Soul to haunt their banks again;", "Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes—I float on the Okeechobee—I cross", " the", " hummock land, or through pleasant openings, or dense forests;", "I see the parrots in the woods—I see the papaw tree and the blossoming titi;", "Again, sailing in my coaster, on deck, I coast off Georgia—I coast up the Carolinas,", "I see where the live-oak is growing—I see where the yellow-pine, the scented", " bay-tree, the", " lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto;", "I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my vision", " inland;", "O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!", "The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers;", "The range afar—the richness and barrenness—the old woods charged with mistletoe", " and", " trailing moss,", "The piney odor and the gloom—the awful natural stillness, (Here in these dense swamps", " the", " freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive slave has his conceal’d hut;)", "O the strange fascination of these half-known, half-impassable swamps, infested by", " reptiles,", " resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the", " wild-cat,", " and", " the whirr of the rattlesnake;", "The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon—singing through the", " moon-lit", " night,", "The humming-bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum;", "A Tennessee corn-field—the tall, graceful, long-leav’d corn—slender,", " flapping,", " bright", " green with tassels—with beautiful ears, each well-sheath’d in its husk;", "An Arkansas prairie—a sleeping lake, or still bayou;", "O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs—I can stand them not—I will depart;", "O to be a Virginian, where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!", "O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee, and never wander more!" ], "linecount": "50" }, { "title": "Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "IN THIS BOOK A TRAVELLER HAD WRITTEN:--", "", "\"Fair Albion, smiling, sees her son depart", "To trace the birth and nursery of art:", "Noble his object, glorious is his aim;", "He comes to Athens, and he--writes his name.\"", "", "BENEATH WHICH LORD BYRON INSERTED THE FOLLOWING:--", "", "The modest bard, like many a bard unknown,", "Rhymes on our names, but wisely hides his own;", "But yet, whoe'er he be, to say no worse,", "His name would bring more credit than his verse." ], "linecount": "10" }, { "title": "\"Home\"", "author": "Edward Thomas", "lines": [ "FAIR was the morning, fair our tempers, and", "We had seen nothing fairer than that land,", "Though strange, and the untrodden snow that made", "Wild of the tame, casting out all that was", "Not wild and rustic and old; and we were glad.", "", "Fair, too, was afternoon, and first to pass", "Were we that league of snow, next the north wind", "", "There was nothing to return for, except need,", "And yet we sang nor ever stopped for speed,", "As we did often with the start behind.", "Faster still strode we when we came in sight", "Of the cold roofs where we must spend the night.", "Happy we had not been there, nor could be.", "Though we had tasted sleep and food and fellowship", "Together long.", "", " \"How quick\" to someone's lip", "The words came, \"will the beaten horse run home.\"", "", "The word \"home\" raised a smile in us all three,", "And one repeated it, smiling just so", "That all knew what he meant and none would say.", "Between three counties far apart that lay", "We were divided and looked strangely each", "At the other, and we knew we were not friends", "But fellows in a union that ends", "With the necessity for it, as it ought.", "", "Never a word was spoken, not a thought", "Was thought, of what the look meant with the word", "\"Home\" as we walked and watched the sunset blurred.", "And then to me the word, only the word,", "\"Homesick,\" as it were playfully occurred:", "No more.", "", " If I should ever more admit", "Than the mere word I could not endure it", "For a day longer: this captivity", "Must somehow come to an end, else I should be", "Another man, as often now I seem,", "Or this life be only an evil dream." ], "linecount": "37" }, { "title": "Home", "author": "Edward Thomas", "lines": [ "OFTEN I had gone this way before:", "But now it seemed I never could be", "And never had been anywhere else;", "'Twas home; one nationality", "We had, I and the birds that sang,", "One memory.", "", "They welcomed me. I had come back", "That eve somehow from somewhere far:", "The April mist, the chill, the calm,", "Meant the same thing familiar", "And pleasant to us, and strange too,", "Yet with no bar.", "", "The thrush on the oaktop in the lane", "Sang his last song, or last but one;", "And as he ended, on the elm", "Another had but just begun", "His last; they knew no more than I", "The day was done.", "", "Then past his dark white cottage front", "A labourer went along, his tread", "Slow, half with weariness, half with ease;", "And, through the silence, from his shed", "The sound of sawing rounded all", "That silence said." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Home", "author": "Edward Thomas", "lines": [ "NOT the end: but there's nothing more.", "Sweet Summer and Winter rude", "I have loved, and friendship and love,", "The crowd and solitude:", "", "But I know them: I weary not;", "But all that they mean I know.", "I would go back again home", "Now. Yet how should I go?", "", "This is my grief. That land,", "My home, I have never seen;", "No traveller tells of it,", "However far he has been.", "", "Afid could I discover it,", "I fear my happiness there,", "Or my pain, might be dreams of return", "Here, to these things that were.", "", "Remembering ills, though slight", "Yet irremediable,", "Brings a worse, an impurer pang", "Than remembering what was well.", "", "No: I cannot go back,", "And would not if I could.", "Until blindness come, I must wait", "And blink at what is not good." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Fragment: Home", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys,", "The least of which wronged Memory ever makes", "Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears." ], "linecount": "3" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to Castor and Pollux", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove,", "Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in love", "With mighty Saturn's Heaven-obscuring Child,", "On Taygetus, that lofty mountain wild,", "Brought forth in joy: mild Pollux, void of blame,", "And steed-subduing Castor, heirs of fame.", "These are the Powers who earth-born mortals save", "And ships, whose flight is swift along the wave.", "When wintry tempests o'er the savage sea", "Are raging, and the sailors tremblingly", "Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow,", "Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow,", "And sacrifice with snow-white lambs,--the wind", "And the huge billow bursting close behind,", "Even then beneath the weltering waters bear", "The staggering ship--they suddenly appear,", "On yellow wings rushing athwart the sky,", "And lull the blasts in mute tranquillity,", "And strew the waves on the white Ocean's bed,", "Fair omen of the voyage; from toil and dread", "The sailors rest, rejoicing in the sight,", "And plough the quiet sea in safe delight." ], "linecount": "22" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to the Moon", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,", "Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsy", "Sing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,", "From her immortal head in Heaven shot forth,", "Far light is scattered--boundless glory springs;", "Where'er she spreads her many-beaming wings", "The lampless air glows round her golden crown.", "", "But when the Moon divine from Heaven is gone", "Under the sea, her beams within abide,", "Till, bathing her bright limbs in Ocean's tide,", "Clothing her form in garments glittering far,", "And having yoked to her immortal car", "The beam-invested steeds whose necks on high", "Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky", "A western Crescent, borne impetuously.", "Then is made full the circle of her light,", "And as she grows, her beams more bright and bright", "Are poured from Heaven, where she is hovering then,", "A wonder and a sign to mortal men.", "", "The Son of Saturn with this glorious Power", "Mingled in love and sleep--to whom she bore", "Pandeia, a bright maid of beauty rare", "Among the Gods, whose lives eternal are.", "", "Hail Queen, great Moon, white-armed Divinity,", "Fair-haired and favourable! thus with thee", "My song beginning, by its music sweet", "Shall make immortal many a glorious feat", "Of demigods, with lovely lips, so well", "Which minstrels, servants of the Muses, tell." ], "linecount": "29" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to the Sun", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once more", "To the bright Sun, thy hymn of music pour;", "Whom to the child of star-clad Heaven and Earth", "Euryphaessa, large-eyed nymph, brought forth;", "Euryphaessa, the famed sister fair", "Of great Hyperion, who to him did bear", "A race of loveliest children; the young Morn,", "Whose arms are like twin roses newly born,", "The fair-haired Moon, and the immortal Sun,", "Who borne by heavenly steeds his race doth run", "Unconquerably, illuming the abodes", "Of mortal Men and the eternal Gods.", "", "Fiercely look forth his awe-inspiring eyes,", "Beneath his golden helmet, whence arise", "And are shot forth afar, clear beams of light;", "His countenance, with radiant glory bright,", "Beneath his graceful locks far shines around,", "And the light vest with which his limbs are bound,", "Of woof aethereal delicately twined,", "Glows in the stream of the uplifting wind.", "His rapid steeds soon bear him to the West;", "Where their steep flight his hands divine arrest,", "And the fleet car with yoke of gold, which he", "Sends from bright Heaven beneath the shadowy sea." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "O universal Mother, who dost keep", "From everlasting thy foundations deep,", "Eldest of things, Great Earth, I sing of thee!", "All shapes that have their dwelling in the sea,", "All things that fly, or on the ground divine", "Live, move, and there are nourished--these are thine;", "These from thy wealth thou dost sustain; from thee", "Fair babes are born, and fruits on every tree", "Hang ripe and large, revered Divinity!", "", "The life of mortal men beneath thy sway", "Is held; thy power both gives and takes away!", "Happy are they whom thy mild favours nourish;", "All things unstinted round them grow and flourish.", "For them, endures the life-sustaining field", "Its load of harvest, and their cattle yield", "Large increase, and their house with wealth is filled.", "Such honoured dwell in cities fair and free,", "The homes of lovely women, prosperously;", "Their sons exult in youth's new budding gladness,", "And their fresh daughters free from care or sadness,", "With bloom-inwoven dance and happy song,", "On the soft flowers the meadow-grass among,", "Leap round them sporting--such delights by thee", "Are given, rich Power, revered Divinity.", "", "Mother of gods, thou Wife of starry Heaven,", "Farewell! be thou propitious, and be given", "A happy life for this brief melody,", "Nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be." ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to Minerva", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,", "Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,", "Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,", "Revered and mighty; from his awful head", "Whom Jove brought forth, in warlike armour dressed,", "Golden, all radiant! wonder strange possessed", "The everlasting Gods that Shape to see,", "Shaking a javelin keen, impetuously", "Rush from the crest of Aegis-bearing Jove;", "Fearfully Heaven was shaken, and did move", "Beneath the might of the Cerulean-eyed;", "Earth dreadfully resounded, far and wide;", "And, lifted from its depths, the sea swelled high", "In purple billows, the tide suddenly", "Stood still, and great Hyperion's son long time", "Checked his swift steeds, till, where she stood sublime,", "Pallas from her immortal shoulders threw", "The arms divine; wise Jove rejoiced to view.", "Child of the Aegis-bearer, hail to thee,", "Nor thine nor others' praise shall unremembered be." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to Venus", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "[VERSES 1-55, WITH SOME OMISSIONS.]", "", "Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,", "Who wakens with her smile the lulled delight", "Of sweet desire, taming the eternal kings", "Of Heaven, and men, and all the living things", "That fleet along the air, or whom the sea,", "Or earth, with her maternal ministry,", "Nourish innumerable, thy delight", "All seek ... O crowned Aphrodite!", "Three spirits canst thou not deceive or quell:--", "Minerva, child of Jove, who loves too well", "Fierce war and mingling combat, and the fame", "Of glorious deeds, to heed thy gentle flame.", "Diana ... golden-shafted queen,", "Is tamed not by thy smiles; the shadows green", "Of the wild woods, the bow, the...", "And piercing cries amid the swift pursuit", "Of beasts among waste mountains,--such delight", "Is hers, and men who know and do the right.", "Nor Saturn's first-born daughter, Vesta chaste,", "Whom Neptune and Apollo wooed the last,", "Such was the will of aegis-bearing Jove;", "But sternly she refused the ills of Love,", "And by her mighty Father's head she swore", "An oath not unperformed, that evermore", "A virgin she would live mid deities", "Divine: her father, for such gentle ties", "Renounced, gave glorious gifts--thus in his hall", "She sits and feeds luxuriously. O'er all", "In every fane, her honours first arise", "From men--the eldest of Divinities.", "", "These spirits she persuades not, nor deceives,", "But none beside escape, so well she weaves", "Her unseen toils; nor mortal men, nor gods", "Who live secure in their unseen abodes.", "She won the soul of him whose fierce delight", "Is thunder--first in glory and in might.", "And, as she willed, his mighty mind deceiving,", "With mortal limbs his deathless limbs inweaving,", "Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair,", "Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare.", "but in return,", "In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,", "That by her own enchantments overtaken,", "She might, no more from human union free,", "Burn for a nursling of mortality.", "For once amid the assembled Deities,", "The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes", "", "Shot forth the light of a soft starlight smile,", "And boasting said, that she, secure the while,", "Could bring at Will to the assembled Gods", "The mortal tenants of earth's dark abodes,", "And mortal offspring from a deathless stem", "She could produce in scorn and spite of them.", "Therefore he poured desire into her breast", "Of young Anchises,", "Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains", "Of the wide Ida's many-folded mountains,--", "Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung", "Like wasting fire her senses wild among." ], "linecount": "60" } ]