The Flowers Have Tender Little Souls

Oh, man, with your wonderful dower, Oh, woman, with genius and grace, You can teach the whole world with your power, If you are but worthy the place.…

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind, Is all the sad world needs.

Dear love, if you and I could sail away, With snowy pennons to the wind unfurled, Across the waters of some unknown bay, And find some island far from all the world;If we could dwell there, ever more alone,…

Angel of Peace, the hounds of war, Unleasehed, are all abroad. And war's foul trade again is made Man's leading aim in life.…

I’m pardoned out. Again the stars Shine on me with their myriad eyes. So long I’ve peered ‘twixt iron bars, I’m awed by this expanse of skies.…

Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold. Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness; In those serene, Arcadian days of old Men gave no thought to princely homes and dress.…

If one poor burdened toiler o’er life’s road, Who meets us by the way, Goes on less conscious of his galling load, Then life, indeed, does pay.If we can show the troubled heart the gain…

Walking to-day on the Common, I heard a stranger say To a friend who was standing near him, ’Do you know I am going away? ’…