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WHERE, where but here have pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle-age?

THE moments passed as at a play;I had the wisdom love brings forth;I had my share of mother-wit,And yet for all that I could say,And though I had her praise…

A certain poet in outlandish clothesGathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane,Talked1 of his country and its people, sangTo some stringed instrument none there had seen,A wall behind his back,…

ILOCKE sank into a swoon;The Garden died;God took the spinning-jennyOut of his side. IIWhere got I that truth?Out of a medium’s mouth.Out of nothing it came,Out of the forest loam,Out…

THROUGH winter-time we call on spring,And through the spring on summer call,And when abounding hedges ringDeclare that winter’s best of all;And after that there s nothing goodBecause the spring-time has…

HERE at right of the entrance this bronze head,Human, superhuman, a bird’s round eye,Everything else withered and mummy-dead.What great tomb-haunter sweeps the distant sky(Something may linger there though all else…

I meditate upon a swallow’s flight,Upon a aged woman and her house,A sycamore and lime-tree lost in nightAlthough that western cloud is luminous,Great works constructed there in nature’s spiteFor scholars…

FOR certain minutes at the leastThat crafty demon and that loud beastThat plague me day and nightRan out of my sight;Though I had long perned in the gyre,Between my hatred…

Now all the truth is out,Be secret and take defeatFrom any brazen throat,For how can you compete,Being honor bred, with oneWho were it proved he liesWere neither shamed in his…

Now, man of croziers, shadows called our namesAnd then away, away, like whirling flames;And now fled by, mist-covered, without sound,The youth and lady and the deer and hound;‘Gaze no more…