RONDEL STRENGTHEN, my Love, this castle of my heart, And with some store of pleasure give me aid, For Jealousy, with all them of his part, Strong sieg...
SPRING THE year has changed his mantle cold Of wind, of rain, of bitter air; And he goes clad in cloth of gold, Of laughing suns and season fair; No b...
BALLADS The originals of the French folk-songs here translated are to be found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de Nerval, and in the...
WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun Which was my sin though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run And do run still ...
NO no! go not to Lethe neither twist Wolf's-bane tight-rooted for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kist By nightshade ruby g...
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks my love; It panted for thee like the hind at noon For the brooks my love. Thy barb whose hoofs o...
MUSIC when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory; Odours when sweet violets sicken Live within the sense they quicken; Rose leaves when the rose is d...
ON a Poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses But feeds on the aerial...
O WILD West Wind thou breath of Autumn's being— Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fle...
ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth — And...