Purged, with the life they left, o… That makes life paltry and mean an… In their new dedication charged With something heightened, enriche… That lends a light to their lusty…

(To have been read before the stat… Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When—with sweet flowers of our Ne… Hiding the lichened stones by fift…

O happiness, I know not what far… Blue hills and deep, thy sunny rea… That thus in Music’s wistful harm… And concert of sweet sound A rumor steals, from some uncertai…

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…

Give me the treble of thy horns an… The ponderous undertones of 'bus a… A garret and a glimpse across the… Of clouds blown eastward over Not… The glad-eyed streets and radiant…

Deep in the sloping forest that su… The head of a green valley that I… Spread the fair gardens and ancest… Of Bellinglise, the beautiful cha… Through shady groves and fields of…

I have sought Happiness, but it h… A lovely rainbow, baffling all pur… And tasted Pleasure, but it was a… More fair of outward hue than swee… Renouncing both, a flake in the fe…

Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and… Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree… White belfries burn in the blue tr… Lie near me in dim forests where t…

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustl… And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death

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

A cloud has lowered that shall not… The world takes sides: whether for… With Tyranny whose bloody toll en… A generous people to heroic war; Whether with Freedom, stretched i…

Their strength had fed on this whe… Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal… Curling across the jungle’s ferny… Becking each fevered brain. On bl… Where Sleep grew niggardly for ni…

Apart sweet women (for whom Heave… Comrades, you cannot think how thi… Look the leftovers of mankind that… Now that the cream has been skimme… War has its horrors, but has this…

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…

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…