Lo, the moon,
Like a galleon sailing the night;
And the wash of the moonlight over the roofs and the trees!

Oh, my bride,
Come down from yonder lattice where you bide
Like a charmed princess in a Persian song! 
I look up at your yellow window-panes,
Set in the night with far-off wizardry. 
Come down, come down; the night is fain of you,
The garden waits your footstep on its walks.

Lo, the moon,
Like a galleon sailing the night;
And the wash of the moonlight over the red brick wall and the roses!

A gleam of lamplight through an open door! 
A footfall like the wind’s upon the grass! 
A rustle like the wind’s among the leaves!... 
Dim as a dream of pale peach blooms of light,
Blue in the blue soft pallor of the moon,
She comes between the trees as a faint tune
Falls from a flute far off into the night.... 
So Death might come to one who knew him Love.

A SONG FOR MARNA.

Dame of the night of hair
Like blue smoke blown! 
World yet undreamed-of there
Lurks to be known.

Dame of the dizzy eyes,
Lure of dim quests! 
World of what midnights lies
Under thy breasts!

Dame of the quench of love,
Give me to quaff! 
There’s all the world’s made of
Under thy laugh.

Dame of the dare of gods,
Let the sky lower! 
Time, give the world for odds,—­
I choose this hour.

SEPTEMBER WOODLANDS.

This is not sadness in the wood;
The yellowbird
Flits joying through the solitude,
By no thought stirred
Save of his little duskier mate
And rompings jolly.

If there’s a Dryad in the wood,
She is not sad. 
Too wise the spirits are to brood;
Divinely glad,
They dream with countenance sedate
Not melancholy.

NANCIBEL.

The ghost of a wind came over the hill,
While day for a moment forgot to die,
And stirred the sheaves
Of the millet leaves,
As Nancibel went by.

Out of the lands of Long Ago,
Into the land of By and By,
Faded the gleam
Of a journeying dream,
As Nancibel went by.

A VAGABOND SONG.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—­
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by. 
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.