ALABASTER Like this alabaster box whose art Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, Carven with delicate dreams and wrought With many a subtle and e...
ECSTASY Cover mine eyes, O my Love!Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and strongO silence my lips with a kiss, My lips tha...
TO MY FAIRY FANCIES Nay, no longer I may hold you,In my spirit's soft caresses, Nor like lotus-leaves enfold youIn the tangles of my tresses. Fair...
ODE TO H.H. THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD (Presented at the Ramzan Durbar) Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round ...
LEILI The serpents are asleep among the poppies, The fireflies light the soundless panther's way To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,...
IN THE FOREST Here, O my heart, let us burn the dear dreams that are dead, Here in this wood let us fashion a funeral pyre Of fallen white petals and ...
PAST AND FUTURE THE NEW HATH COME AND NOW THE OLD RETIRES: And so the past becomes a mountain-cell, Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell In co...
LIFE Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless joys that leap About your hearts like...
THE POET'S LOVE-SONG In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bindThe world to my desire, and hold th...
TO THE GOD OF PAIN Unwilling priestess in thy cruel fane, Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows, My tir...