I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake, Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmering white; The North unfolds above them clinging...
O curlew, cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings to my mind Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair That...
1 To think of time - of all that retrospection, To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward. Have you guess'd you yourself would not c...
2 Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement, Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse. The dull nights go over...
3 To think the thought of death merged in the thought of materials, To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interes...
When my arms wrap you round I press My heart upon the loveliness That has long faded from the world; The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled In sha...
I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams, White woman that passion has worn As the tide wears the dove-grey sands, And with h...
DAREST THOU NOW O SOUL Darest thou now O soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow...
WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear, Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mysti...
Fasten your hair with a golden pin, And bind up every wandering tress; I bade my heart build these poor rhymes: It worked at them, day out, day in, Bu...