October’s Bright Blue Weather (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's ...
Helen Hunt Jackson Poems (86 Poems)
Poppies on the Wheat (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Along Ancona's hills the shimmering heat, A tropic tide of air with ebb and flow Bathes all the fields of ...
Refrain (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Of all the songs which poets sing The ones which are most sweet Are those which at close intervals A ...
Doubt (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
1 They bade me cast the thing away, 2 They pointed to my hands all bleeding, 3 They listened not ...
Freedom (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
What freeman knoweth freedom? Never he Whose father's father through long lives have reigned O'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained. ...
God’s Light-Houses (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
1 When night falls on the earth, the sea 2 From east to west lies twinkling bright 3 With shining ...
My Bees: An Allegory (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
"O bees, sweet bees!" I said, "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain ...
My Strawberry (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause To reckon thee. I ask what cause Set free so much of red ...
An Arctic Quest (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O proudly name their names who bravely sail To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas! Bring money and ...
Chance (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
These things wondering I saw beneath the sun: That never yet the race was to the swift, The fight unto ...
Crossed Threads (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The silken threads by viewless spinners spun, Which float so idly on the summer air, And help to make each ...
Danger (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
With what a childish and short-sighted sense Fear seeks for safety; recons up the days Of danger and escape, the ...
Death (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
My body, eh? Friend Death, how now? Why all this tedious pomp of writ? Thou hast reclaimed it sure and ...
A Dream (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
I dreamed that I ws dead and crossed the heavens,-- Heavens after heavens with burning feet and swift,-- And cried: ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: May (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O Month when they who love must love and wed! Were one to go to worlds where May is naught, ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: November (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
This is the treacherous month when autumn days With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts. Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: October (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The month of carnival of all the year, When Nature lets the wild earth go its way, And spend whole ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: September (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung On wands; the ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: January (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: July (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Some flowers are withered and some joys have died; The garden reeks with an East Indian scent From beds where ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: June (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, And burst in one! it seems the earth can store In all her ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: March (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Month which the warring ancients strangely styled The month of war,--as if in their fierce ways Were any month of ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: February (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: April (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: August (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
Silence again. The glorious symphony Hath need of pause and interval of peace. Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds ...
A Calendar of Sonnets: December (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: Far fairer than when ...