In Memory I Serene and beautiful and very wise, Most erudite in curious Grecian lore, You lay and read your learned books, and bore A weight of unshed...
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for th...
All Voices Lord of the Universe, Lord of our being, Father eternal, ineffable Om! Thou art the Seed and the Scythe of our harvests, Thou art our Hands...
She Like a serpent to the calling voice of flutes, Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love! Where the night-wind, like a lover, leans above His ja...
He Like the perfume in the petals of a rose, Hides thy heart within my bosom, O my love! Like a garland, like a jewel, like a dove That hangs its nest...
CRADLE-SONG From groves of spice, O'er fields of rice, Athwart the lotus-stream,I bring for you,Aglint with dew A little lovely dream. Sweet, shut...
SUTTEE Lamp of my life, the lips of Death Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath; Naught shall revive thy vanished spark . . . Love, must I dwel...
SONG OF A DREAM Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of ...
HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA (From the Urdu) You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn, Your sweetness in the nightingale, your whiteness in th...
AUTUMN SONG Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,The sunset hangs on a cloud; A golden storm of glittering sheaves, Of fair and frail and fluttering le...