THEY HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME. THE weary sails a moment slept, The oars were silent for a space, As past Hesperian shores we swept, That we...
FAIR white bird, what song art thou singing In wintry weather of lands o'er sea？ Dear white bird, what way art thou winging, Where no grass grows,...
THE SEEKERS. NAY, now no God comes hither, In shape that men may see； They fare we know not whither, We know not what they be. Yea, though the sunset ...
THE PHAEACIANS. WHY from the dreamy meadows, More fair than any dream, Why will you seek the shadows Beyond the ocean stream？ Through straits of storm...
A SONG OF PHAEACIA. THE languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas, The wide fire flames, as a flower uncloses, Heavy with od...
HESPEROTHEN. BY the example of certain Grecian mariners, who, being safely returned from the war about Troy, leave yet again their old lands and gods,...
A SUNSET ON YARROW. THE wind and the day had lived together, They died together, and far away Spoke farewell in the sultry weather, Out of the sunset,...
A STAR IN THE NIGHT. THE perfect piteous beauty of thy face, Is like a star the dawning drives away； Mine eyes may never see in the bright day Thy pal...
LOST IN HADES. I DREAMED that somewhere in the shadowy place, Grief of farewell unspoken was forgot In welcome, and regret remembered not； And hopeles...
METEMPSYCHOSIS. I SHALL not see thee, nay, but I shall know Perchance, thy grey eyes in another's eyes, Shall guess thy curls in gracious locks th...