THERE is a queen in China, or maybe it’s in Spain,And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heardOf her unblemished lineaments, a whiteness with nostain,That she might be that…
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O HURRY where by water among the treesThe delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,When they have but looked upon their images —Would none had ever loved but you and I!Or…
A Dramatic Poem The deck of an ancient ship. At the right of the stage is the mast,with a large square sail hiding a great deal of the sky and…
THERE was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,Went walking with slow steps along the gleamingAnd humming Sands, where windy surges wend:And he…
HIS DREAMI SWAYED upon the gaudy stemThe butt-end of a steering-oar,And saw wherever I could turnA crowd upon a shore.And though I would have hushed the crowd,There was no mother’s…
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…
The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that muchStruggling for an image on the trackOf the whirling Zodiac.Scarce did he my body touch,Scarce sank he from the westOr found a…
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread the cloths under…
One that is ever kind said yesterday:‘Your well-beloved’s hair has threads of grey,And little shadows come about her eyes;Time can but make it easier to be wiseThough now it seems…
FASTEN your hair with a golden pin,And bind up every wandering tress;I bade my heart build these poor rhymes:It worked at them, day out, day in,Building a sorrowful lovelinessOut of…