I sought on earth a garden of deli… Or island altar to the Sea and Ai… Where gentle music were accounted… And reason, veiled, performed the… My sad youth worshipped at the pit…
Slow and reluctant was the long de… With many farewell pious looks beh… And dumb misgivings where the path… And questionings of nature, as I… The greener branches that above me…
O world, thou choosest not the bet… It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the… But it is wisdom to believe the he… Columbus found a world, and had no…
I would I had been born in nature… When man was in the world a wide-e… And clouds of sorrow crossed his s… To scatter dewdrops on the buds of… Then could he work and love and fi…
Dreamt I today the dream of yeste… Sleep ever feigning one evolving t… Of my two lives which should I ca… Which action vanity? Which vision… Some greater waking must pronounce…
Love not as do the flesh-imprisone… Whose dreams are of a bitter bough… Or even of a maiden’s tenderness Whom they love only that she loves… For it is but thyself thou lovest…
I would I might forget that I am… And break the heavy chain that bin… Whose links about myself my deeds… What in the body’s tomb doth burie… Is boundless; ’tis the spirit of t…
O martyred Spirit of this helples… Who dost by pain for tyranny atone… And in the star, the atom, and the… Purgest the primal guilt, and in t… Rich but in grief, thou dost thy w…
Have patience; it is fit that in t… The spirit purge away its proper d… No endless fever doth thy watches… For by excess of evil, evil dies. Soon shall the faint world melt be…
Have I the heart to wander on the… So patient in her everlasting cour… Seeking no prize, but bowing to th… That gives direction and hath give… Rain tears, sweet Pity, to refres…
Deem not, because you see me in th… Of this world’s children run my fa… That I blaspheme against a proffe… Or leave unlearned the love of hol… I honour not that sanctity the les…
Mightier storms than this are brew… That pricks the crystal lake with… The past hath treasure of sublimer… And God is witness to their chang… Big is the future with portentous…
Sweet are the days we wander with… Along life’s labyrinthine trodden… With no impatience at the steep’s… Nor sorrow at the swift-descended… Why this inane curiosity to grope
There may be chaos still around th… This little world that in my think… For mine own bosom is the paradise Where all my life’s fair visions a… Within my nature’s shell I slumbe…
A wall, a wall to hem the azure sp… And hedge me in from the disconsol… Give me but one of all the mountai… Enough of ocean in its voice I he… Come no profane insatiate mortal n…
A thousand beauties that have neve… Haunt me with hope and tempt me to… The gods, methinks, dwell just beh… The satyrs at my coming fled the g… The flitting shadows of the grove…
There was a time when in the teeth… I flung the challenge of the spiri… The child, the dreamer of that vis… Woke, and was humbled unto man’s e… A slave I am; on sun and moon I w…
Blaspheme not love, ye lovers, nor… The wise divinity that makes you b… Sealing the eyes, but showing to t… The high perfection from which nat… For love is God, and in unfathome…
Above the battlements of heaven ri… The glittering domes of the gods’… Whence, like a constellation, pass… The truth of all things feeds immo… There all forgotten dreams of para…
These strewn thoughts, by the moun… I conned for comfort, till I ceas… And with these flowering thorns I… The crown, great Mother, on thine… Teach thou a larger speech to my l…
Among the myriad voices of the Sp… What were the voice of my supreme… What were my cry amid the vernal c… Or my complaint before the gods th… O too late love, O flight on woun…
’Tis love that moveth the celestia… In endless yearning for the Chang… And the stars sing together, as th… To number the innumerable years. ’Tis love that lifteth through the…
But is this love, that in my hollo… Gnaws like a silent poison, till… Is this the vision that the haggar… Fed with his vigils, till he found… Is this the hope that piloted thy…
Although I decked a chamber for m… And found a moonlit garden for the… Wherein all flowers looked happy a… Hath the deep heart of me been sat… The chasm 'twixt our spirits yawns…
As in the midst of battle there is… For thoughts of love, and in foul… As gossips whisper of a trinket’s… Spied by the death-bed’s flickerin… As in the crevices of Caesar’s to…
Oh, if the heavy last unuttered gr… That lieth here could issue to the… Then might God’s peace descend on… And seal this heart as with a migh… For what sin, Heaven, must I thus…
Sleep hath composed the anguish of… And ere the dawn I will arise and… Strengthen me, Heaven, and attune… Unto my better angel’s clear refra… For I can hear him in the night a…
Out of the dust the queen of roses… The brackish depths of the blown w… Blossoms of foam; the common mist… Weave Vesper’s holy, pity-laden w… So from sad, mortal, and unhallowe…
What riches have you that you deem… Or what large comfort that you cal… Tell me what makes you so exceedin… Is your earth happy or your heaven… I hope for heaven, since the stars…
Let my lips touch thy lips, and my… Contagious fever be, to set a-glow The blood beneath thy whiter breas… Wonderful snow, that so can kindle… Abandon to what gods in us conspir…
