I A speckled cat and a tame hareEat at my hearthstoneAnd sleep there;And both look up to me aloneFor learning and defenceAs I look up to Providence. I start out…

“WHAT do you make so fair and bright?’“I make the cloak of Sorrow:O lovely to see in all men’s sightShall be the cloak of Sorrow,In all men’s sight.’“What do you…

“THOSE Platonists are a curse,’ he said,“God’s fire upon the wane,A diagram hung there instead,More women born than men.’

THE true faith discovered wasWhen painted panel, statuary.Glass-mosaic, window-glass,Amended what was told awryBy some peasant gospeller;Swept the Sawdust from the floorOf that working-carpenter.Miracle had its playtime whereIn damask clothed and…

FAR-OFF, most secret, and inviolate Rose,Enfold me in my hour of hours; where thoseWho sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stirAnd tumult of defeated…

I AM worn out with dreams;A weather-worn, marble tritonAmong the streams;And all day long I lookUpon this lady’s beautyAs though I had found in a bookA pictured beauty,pleased to have…

POUR wine and dance if manhood still have pride,Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom;The cataract smokes upon the mountain side,Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.Pull down…

BIRD sighs for the air,Thought for I know not where,For the womb the seed sighs.Now sinks the same restOn mind, on nest,On straining thighs.

I Under the Great Comedian’s tomb the crowd.A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blownAbout the sky; where that is clear of cloudBrightness remains; a brighter star shoots down;What shudders run…

The intellect of man is forced to chooseperfection of the life, or of the work,And if it take the second must refuseA heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.When all that…