If it Were lighter touch Than petal of flower resting On grass, oh still too heavy it we… Too heavy!

A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,

‘Boy, lying Where the long grass Edges the pool’s brim, What do you watch There in the water? The blue

Is it as plainly in our living sho… By slant and twist, which way the…

Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?

To Walter Savage Landor Ah, Walter, where you lived I rue These days come all too late for m… What matter if her eyes were blue Whose rival is Persephone?

(1) The rose new-opening saith, And the dew of the morning saith, (Fallen leaves and vanished dew) Remember death.

Nor stars . . the dark . . and in The dark the grey Ghost glimmer of the olive trees The black straight rows Of Cypresses.

Was it love breathed on us as on t… Dawn breathes for a short space an… Or loved we never at all who but m… With too dim vision the guarded my… Were we unfaithful or were we unwi…

Fate Defied As it Were tissue of silver I’ll wear, O fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad

A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.

Well and If day on day Follows and weary year On year . . . and ever days and ye… Well?

My songs to sell, sweet maid! I pray you buy. Here’s one will win a lady’s tears… Here’s one will make her gay, Here’s one will charm your true lo…

In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sigh… Of Greece.

Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord’s mother is weeping, She hath nor bread nor wine; She is weeping. The Queen of Hea…