Man openeth the case Body, from the arrogance Of the Soul thou seekest shield, Makest prayer the old mis—chance Of your birth—bond be repealed,

Yet it is pitiful how friendships… Spite of our oaths eternal and hig… Some fall through blight of tongue… Some through strifes loud in empty… Some vanish with fame got too glor…

We spent a day together, One day of all our lives, Of love in cloudless weather— Such only youth contrives— One day in the red heather,

A heritage for ever. Such a sleep Came upon Adrian and such a dream… As in the shade he lay a weary hea… For, while he rested, still it see… He rode towards the city of his lo…

THE SUBLIME To stand upon a windy pinnacle, Beneath the infinite blue of the b… And underfoot a valley terrible As that dim gulf, where sense and…

How grey the world was with its me… How dark even this gay room where… How black these curtains, thick wi… These chairs, this floor with thin… ’Twas here I strangled love, a ye…

I have quarrelled with the Moon.… As all boys love one face supremel… I had heard her praised, and I to… Let my tongue wag and made her my… My prayer! For what, great heaven…

HE who has once been happy is for…    Out of destruction’s reach. Hi… Holds nothing secret; and Eternit…    Which is a mystery to other men… Has like a woman given him its joy…

TO HER WHO WOULD COMFOR… I did not ask your pity, dear. Yo… I know. It cannot cure me of my w… And you, in your sweet happiness,… Deserve it rather I should pity f…

THE HAUNTED HOUSE How loud the storm blew all that b… The loosened ivy tapping on the pa… Woke me and woke, again and yet ag… Till I was full awake and sat upr…

TO ONE WHOM HE HAD LO… Why do I cling to thee, sad love?… Thou bringest me neither pleasure… Nor profit to my reason save in so… My daily utterance. See, thy begg…

’Twas thus with my Natalia, suppl… Who loved young Adrian to her hea… And loved him dearly, yet could no… Her fears of ill nor use her woman… To grant his wish, but ever put aw…

ON THE POWER OF HER BEAU… I am lighthearted now. An hour ag… There was a tempest in my heaven,… Of sullen lightning under a bent b… And a dull muttering which breathe…

Griselda’s madness lasted forty da… Forty eternities! Men went their… And suns arose and set, and women… And tongues wagged lightly in impe… Of Lady L.'s adventure. She was…

How shall I ransom me? The world… Where once I lived in vain expens… Say, shall it welcome me in this l… Back to its bosom of forgotten joy… Sometimes I hear it whispering wi…