Three months bade wane and wax the… Between two dates of death, while… Yet of the living light that all t… Three months bade wane. Cold autumn, wan with wrath of win…

Am I not he that hath made thee a… I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these eighteen years… From whom thy life began? Thy life-blood and thy life-breath…

My brother, my Valerius, dearest… Of all whose crowning bay-leaves c… Rome, in the notes first heard of… My brother. No dust that death or time can str…

PUSH hard across the sand, For the salt wind gathers breath; Shoulder and wrist and hand, Push hard as the push of death. The wind is as iron that rings,

Maiden most beautiful, mother most… Queen and republican, crowned of t… See for thy sake what we bring to… This is the banner thy gonfalon, f… Red from the hearts that were pier…

Love, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only spring… Love, Love, heard from the heights there…

That nose is out of drawing. With… She pants upon the passionate lips… With the red drain of her own mout… A monochord of colour. Like an as… One lithe lock wriggles in his rut…

Ask nothing more of me, sweet; All I can give you I give. Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet: Love that should help you to live,

CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers… We thy latter sons, the men thine… We the children of thy grey-grown… O our mother everlasting, we besee…

In the grey beginning of years, in… The word of the earth in the ears… The word of the earth to the spher… The sound of her speech in the ear… Was it praise or passion or prayer…

Three times thrice hath winter’s r… Crossed and curdled wells and stre… Since his birth whose praises love… Three times thrice. Earth nor sea bears flower nor pea…

HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its bough… Serpent and scarab for a sign Between the beauty of her brows And the amorous deep lids divine.

At the chill high tide of the nigh… At the turn of the fluctuant hours… When the waters of time are at hei… In a vision arose on my sight The kingdoms of earth and the powe…

A Ballad of Burdens The burden of fair women. Vain de… And love self-slain in some sweet… And sorrowful old age that comes b… As a thief comes that has no heart…