Poems

Chapter 4: UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

A compact collection of short lyrics and occasional longer pieces that pair devotional reflection with sentimental and patriotic themes. Poems move between nature scenes, seascapes, and seasonal detail to explore faith, hope, duty, and the consolations of memory. Language tends toward clear, hymnlike phrasing and moral admonition, with moments of celebratory exhortation and public commemoration interspersed among intimate domestic and pastoral sketches.

UNBIDDEN GUESTS.

Good thoughts are like the violet demure—

So sweet, so pure;

They ope their happy eyes

'Neath stormy skies,

Calm and secure.

As guests unbidden though perchance they come,

They make the dumb,

Pale silence blithely ring

And sad lips sing

Most frolicsome.