The New Day: A Poem in Songs and Sonnets (New York: The Century Co., 1875)
I love her doubting and anguish; I love the love she withholds; I love my love that loveth her And anew her being moulds.
Part III. XII: "Song (I Love Her Gentle Forehead)", line 9; p. 55.
The Smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makesMemnon sing: O, see where wide the golden sunlight flows— The barren desert blossoms as the rose!
Part III. XXIV: "The Smile of Her I Love", line 1; p. 69.
Not from the whole wide world I chose thee— Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me.
Part IV. IV: "Song (Not from the Whole Wide World)", line 1; p. 86.
Heaven from the hopeless doubter The true believer makes: Against the darkness outer The light God's likeness takes.
Part IV. XVII: "He Knows Not the Path of Duty", line 9; p. 100.
Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,— A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.
"A Midsummer Song", stanza 2; p. 11.
I am a woman—therefore I may not Call to him, cry to him, Fly to him, Bid him delay not.
"A Woman's Thought", line 1; p. 16.
O white and midnight sky, O starry bath, Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath— Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
