#Americans
Oh, love of woman, you are known t… A passion sent to plague the heart… For every one you bring felicity Bringing rebuffs and wretchedness… I have been oft where human life s…
Who shall invoke her, who shall be… With single rites the common debt… On some green headland fronting to… Our fairest boy shall kneel at bre… Naked, uplifting in a laden tray
Stretched on a sunny bank he lay a… Ferns at his elbow, lilies round h… With sweet flesh patterned where t… Flowerlike crept o’er with emerald… Single he couched there, to his ci…
Florence, rejoice! For thou o’er… So spread’st thy pinions that the… Hath reached no less into the dept… So noble were the five I found to… Therein—thy sons—whence shame accr…
All that’s not love is the dearth… The leaves of the volume with rubr… The temple in times without prayer… The altar unset and the candle unl… Let me survive not the lovable swa…
Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles… In grove and garden to the sapphir… Twine yellow roses for the drinker… Let music reach and fair heads cir… Watching blue ocean where the whit…
When among creatures fair of count… Love comes enformed in such proud… So far as other beauty yields to h… So far the breast with fiercer lon… I bless the spot, and hour, and ci…
Down the strait vistas where a cit… Fades in pale dust and vaporous di… Stained with far fumes the light g… And the sky reddens round the day’… Now out of orient chambers, cool a…
Thy petals yet are closely curled, Rose of the world, Around their scented, golden core; Nor yet has Summer purpled o’er Thy tender clusters that begin
So when the verdure of his life wa… With all the grace of ripened manl… And on his locks, but now so lovab… Old age like desolating winter fel… Leaving them white and flowerless…
There was a youth around whose ear… White angels hung in converse and… Teaching in summer clouds his thou… In cloud and far horizon to desire… His life was nursed in beauty, lik…
I fancied, while you stood convers… Superb, in every attitude a queen, Her ermine thus Boadicea bare, So moved amid the multitude Faust… My life, whose whole religion Bea…
Why should you be astonished that… Plunged for so long in darkness an… Should be revived by you, and stir… As by warm April now, reviving Ea… I am the field of undulating grass
Her eyes under their lashes were b… Fringed round with lilies; her bri… Clothed her as sunshine clothes th… Her robes were gauzes—gold and gre… All furry things flocked round her…
There have been times when I coul… But you shall never hear me suppli… These long months that have magnif… Have made my asking less importuna… For now small favors seem to me so…