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The Thorn
"Every Rose, you sang, has its Thorn,
But this has none, I know."
She clasped my rival's Rose
Over her breast of snow.
I bowed to hide my pain,
With a man's unskilful art;
I moved my lips, and could not say
The Thorn was in my heart!
Fiction
- A Chance Acquaintance
- A Forgone Conclusion
- A Hazard of New Fortunes
- A Modern Instance
- A Traveler from Altruria
- An Open-Eyed Conspiracy
- Annie Kilburn
- April Hopes
- Between the Dark and the Daylight
- Boy Life
- Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
- Dr. Breen's Practice
- Fennel and Rue
- Indian Summer
- Landlord at Lion's Head
- Questionable Shapes
- Ragged Lady
- The Coast of Bohemia
- The Daughter of the Storage
- The Flight of Pony Baker
- The Kentons
- The Lady of Aroostook
- The Leatherwood God
- The Minister's Charge
- The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Through the Eye of the Needle
Non-Fiction
Short Stories
Poetry
- A Poet
- A Springtime
- Avery
- Before the Gate
- Bereaved
- Bopeep: A Pastoral
- Bubbles
- By the Sea
- Caprice
- Clement
- Convention
- Dead
- Elegy on John Butler Howells
- Feuerbilder
- For One of the Killed
- Forlorn
- Gone
- In August
- In Earliest Spring
- Lost Beliefs
- Louis Lebeau's Conversion
- No Love Lost
- Pleasure-Pain
- Pordenone
- Prelude
- Rapture
- Saint Christopher
- Sketch
- Sweet Clover
- Tennyson
- Thanksgiving
- The Battle in the Clouds
- The Bobolinks are Singing
- The Doubt
- The Empty House
- The Faithful of the Gonzaga
- The First Cricket
- The Long Days
- The Mulberries
- The Mysteries
- The Pilot's Story
- The Poet's Friends
- The Royal Portraits
- The Sarcastic Fair
- The Snow-Birds
- The Song the Oriole Sings
- The Thorn
- The Two Wives
- Through the Meadow
- Vagary
- While She Sang
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