Song of the Mystic I walk down the Valley of Silence —— Down the dim, voiceless valley —— alone！ And I hear not the fall of a ...
THE SHADE OF HELEN. WHY from the quiet hollows of the hills, And extreme meeting place of light and shade, Wherein soft rains fell slowly, and became ...
A LOST PATH. [Plotinus, the Greek philosopher, had a certain proper mode of ecstasy, whereby, as Porphyry saith, his soul, becoming free from his deat...
SYLVIE ET AURELIE. TWO loves there were, and one was born Between the sunset and the rain； Her singing voice went through the corn, Her dance was wove...
A LA BELLE HELENE. AFTER RONSARD. MORE closely than the clinging vine About the wedded tree, Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine！ About the heart...
TWO SONNETS OF THE SIRENS I. THE Sirens once were maidens innocent That through the water-meads with Proserpine Plucked no fire-hearted flowers, but w...
FAIRY LAND. IN light of sunrise and sunsetting, The long days lingered, in forgetting That ever passion, keen to hold What may not tarry, was of old, ...
DREAMS. HE spake not truth, however wise, who said That happy, and that hapless men in sleep Have equal fortune, fallen from care as deep As countless...
LOVE'S MIRACLE. WITH other helpless folk about the gate, The gate called Beautiful, with weary eyes That take no pleasure in the summer skies, Nor...
AN OLD PRAYER. MY prayer an old prayer borroweth, Of ancient love and memory - 'Do thou farewell, till Eld and Death, That come to all men, come t...