IMPLORING HER TO BE TRUE MISTRESS of me, mistress of al… And charms that sway men’s hot ung… Receive their tribute—smile at the… I do not ask that you should spare…

IF I might build a palace, fair With every joy of soul and sense, And set my heart as sentry there To guard your happy innocence— If I might plant a hedge so stron…

THE trees stand brown against the… The shivering gray of field and sk… The mists wrapt round the dying da… The shroud poor days wear as they… Poor day, die soon, who lived in v…

I KNOW a garden where white lili… Under the grey sweet-laden apple b… It is a garden where the roses blo… And honeysuckle covers half the ho… O happy garden, do you keep the vo…

DEAR, if I told you, made your s… Showed you the ghosts that o’er my… What joy were mine—to cast aside t… And clasp you close with no base l… You have given all, and still woul…

Now the sprinkled blackthorn snow Lies along the lover’€™s lane Where last year we used to go– Where we shall not go again. In the hedge the buds are new,

WE climb the hill; the mist conce… That valley where we could not sta… Surely this hill’s crest, gained,… The glory of the sunlit day. The hill is climbed. Still shadow…

ONE morning, my heart can remembe… I sat dreaming there, In the 'governor’s’ chair In the office. The month was Nove… And the weather a subject for pray…

HOW can I tell you how I love yo… There is no music now the world is… The songs have all been sung, the… Broken the vows are all this many… Had we but met when all the world…

LEAN down and see your little fa… Reflected in the forest pool, Tall foxgloves grow about the plac… Forget-me-nots grow green and cool… Look deep and see the naiad rise

NOW the far waves roll nearer and… The wind’s awake, the pitiless win… It shrieks the menace that I dare… Soon at my feet the angry waves wi… In desolating wrath—and here I st…

That was the skylark we heard Singing so high, The little quivering bird We saw, and the sky. The earth was drenched with sun,

SHE and I—we kissed and vowed That should be which could not be; Just as if mere vows endowed Love with immortality! Ah, had vows but kept us true,

ALL summer-time you said: ‘Love has no need of shelter nor o… For all the flowers take pity on h… And lead him to his scented rose-s… ‘He is a king,’ you said.

WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, The long day’s penance done at las… I see the ghosts of days gone by, And hear the voices of the past. I see the blue-gray wood-smoke cur…