Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then… Then weep!

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

Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady:

THE old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that… Should weep?

O mia Luna! Porta mi fortuna! (You must say it nine times, curts… In rose-pale, fading blue of twili… See, the new moon’s thin crescent… Nine times I’ll curtsey murmuring…

The cold With steely clutch Grips all the land. .alack The little people in the hills Will die!

Peter stands by the gate, And Michael by the throne. ‘Peter, I would pass the gate And come before the throne.’ ‘Whose spirit prayed never at the…

As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying -

Guardian Of The Treasure Of Sol… And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armo… My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and but

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

Oh me, Was there a time When Paradise knew Eve In this sweet guise, so placid and

Behold her, Running through the waves Eager to reach the land; The water laps her, Sun and wind are on her,

Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there sh… Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away,

The long night through and still a… Estranged from eyes that very wear… Makes blind to dawn.

The poet pursues his beautiful the… The preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing dream… The glittering, will-o’-the-wispis… Of the properly scholarly attitude…