NIGHTINGALE WEATHER. I'LL never be a nun, I trow, While apple bloom is white as snow, But far more fair to see； I'll never wear nun's blac...
LOVE AND WISDOM. JULY, and June brought flowers and love To you, but I would none thereof, Whose heart kept all through summer time A flower of frost ...
GOOD-BYE. KISS me, and say good-bye； Good-bye, there is no word to say but this, Nor any lips left for my lips to kiss, Nor any tears to shed, when th...
AN OLD PRAYER. MY prayer an old prayer borroweth, Of ancient love and memory - 'Do thou farewell, till Eld and Death, That come to all men, come t...
LOVE'S MIRACLE. WITH other helpless folk about the gate, The gate called Beautiful, with weary eyes That take no pleasure in the summer skies, Nor...
DREAMS. HE spake not truth, however wise, who said That happy, and that hapless men in sleep Have equal fortune, fallen from care as deep As countless...
FAIRY LAND. IN light of sunrise and sunsetting, The long days lingered, in forgetting That ever passion, keen to hold What may not tarry, was of old, ...
TWO SONNETS OF THE SIRENS I. THE Sirens once were maidens innocent That through the water-meads with Proserpine Plucked no fire-hearted flowers, but w...
A LA BELLE HELENE. AFTER RONSARD. MORE closely than the clinging vine About the wedded tree, Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine！ About the heart...
SYLVIE ET AURELIE. TWO loves there were, and one was born Between the sunset and the rain； Her singing voice went through the corn, Her dance was wove...