The angels are stoopingAbove your bed;They weary of troopingWith the whimpering dead.God’s laughing in HeavenTo see you so good;The Sailing Sevenare gay with His mood.I sigh that kiss you,For I…

TOIL and grow rich,What’s that but to lieWith a foul witchAnd after, drained dry,To be broughtTo the chamber whereLies one long soughtWith despair?

PARNELL’S FUNERAL 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…

THAT civilisation may not sink,Its great battle lost,Quiet the dog, tether the ponyTo a distant post;Our master Caesar is in the tentWhere the maps ate spread,His eyes fixed upon nothing,A…

Though nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty’s murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I thought her body boreA heart of flesh and blood. But since…

I DREAMED that one had died in a strange placeNear no accustomed hand,And they had nailed the boards above her face,The peasants of that land,Wondering to lay her in that…

Like the moon her kindness is,If kindness I may callWhat has no comprehension in’t,But is the same for allAs though my sorrow were a sceneUpon a painted wall. So like…

I admit the briarEntangled in my hairDid not injure me;My blenching and trembling,Nothing but dissembling,Nothing but coquetry. I long for truth, and yetI cannot stay from thatMy better self disowns,For…

PICTURE and book remain,An acre of green grassFor air and exercise,Now strength of body goes;Midnight, an old houseWhere nothing stirs but a mouse. My temptation is quiet.Here at life’s endNeither…

Speech after long silence; it is right,All other lovers being estranged or dead,Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,That we descant and yet again descantUpon the…