HALF close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it…
IF you, that have grown old, were the first dead,Neither catalpa tree nor scented limeShould hear my living feet, nor would I treadWhere we wrought that shall break the teeth…
Dry timber under that rich foliage,At wine-dark midnight in the sacred wood,Too old for a man’s love I stood in rageImagining men. Imagining that I couldA greater with a lesser pang…
FIVE-AND-TWENTY years have goneSince old William pollexfenLaid his strong bones down in deathBy his wife ElizabethIn the grey stone tomb he made.And after twenty years they laidIn that tomb by…
A crazy man that found a cup,When all but dead of thirst,Hardly dared to wet his mouthImagining, moon-accursed,That another mouthfulAnd his beating heart would burst.October last I found it tooBut…
WHAT sort of man is comingTo lie between your feet?What matter, we are but women.Wash; make your body sweet;I have cupboards of dried fragrance.I can strew the sheet.The Lord have…
Three Voices [together]. Hurry to bless the hands that play,The mouths that speak, the notes and strings,O masters of the glittering town!O! lay the shrilly trumpet down,Though drunken with the…
THROUGH intricate motions ranStream and gliding sunAnd all my heart seemed gay:Some stupid thing that I had doneMade my attention stray.Repentance keeps my heart impure;But what am I that dareFancy…
A MOST astonishing thing —Seventy years have I lived; (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring,For Spring is here again.) Seventy years have I livedNo ragged beggar-man,Seventy years have I lived,Seventy…
WHERE had her sweetness gone?What fanatics inventIn this blind bitter town,Fantasy or incidentNot worth thinking of,put her in a rage.I had forgiven enoughThat had forgiven old age.All lives that has…