Once, when midnight smote the air,Eunuchs ran through Hell and metFrom thoroughfare to thoroughfare,While that great Juan galloped by;And like these to rail and sweatStaring upon his sinewy thigh.
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SANG Solomon to Sheba,And kissed her dusky face,“All day long from mid-dayWe have talked in the one place,All day long from shadowless noonWe have gone round and roundIn the narrow…
PYTHAGORAS planned it. Why did the people stare?His numbers, though they moved or seemed to moveIn marble or in bronze, lacked character.But boys and girls, pale from the imagined loveOf solitary…
My mother dandled me and sang,‘How young it is, how young!’And made a golden cradleThat on a willow swung. ‘He went away,’ my mother sang,‘When I was brought to bed,’And…
What lively lad most pleasured meOf all that with me lay?I answer that I gave my soulAnd loved in misery,But had great pleasure with a ladThat I loved bodily. Flinging…
FOR one throb of the artery,While on that old grey stone I SatUnder the old wind-broken tree,I knew that One is animate,Mankind inanimate fantasy’.
IFATHER AND CHILDSHE hears me strike the board and sayThat she is under banOf all good men and women,Being mentioned with a manThat has the worst of all bad names;And…
HURRAH for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS THERE was a green branch hung with many a bellWhen her own people ruled this tragic Eire;And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,A Druid…
I found that ivory image thereDancing with her chosen youth,But when he wound her coal-black hairAs though to strangle her, no screamOr bodily movement did I dare,Eyes under eyelids did…