(Encyclopedia) Moses, Robert, 1888–1981, U.S. public official, b. New Haven, Conn. He was appointed (1919) by Alfred E. Smith to the committee to study and revamp New York state government machinery…
Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling why,
Halts on the bridge…
I Hoed and trenched and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.So up and down I sow them
For lads like me to find,
When I shall lie…
If truth in hearts that perish
Could move the powers on high,
I think the love I bear you
Should make you not to die.Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning,
If single thought could save,
The…
It nods and curtseys and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.The nettle nods, the wind blows over,
The man, he does not…
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
Still in marble stone stood he,
And stedfastly he looked at me.
"Well met…
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming like a noise in dreams.Far and near and low and louder
On the roads of earth go by,
Dear…
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated…
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives…
There pass the careless people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.Ah, past the plunge of plummet,
In seas I cannot sound,
My heart and soul and…
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