It was a day of sun and rain, Uncertain as a child’s swift moods… And I shall never spend again So blithe a day among the woods. Was it because the Gods were plea…

Water and marble and that silentne… Which is not broken by a wheel or… A city like a water-lily, less Seen than reflected, palace wall a… In the unfruitful waters motionles…

O flame of living love, That dost eternally Pierce through my soul with so con… Since there’s no help above, Make thou an end of me,

The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it’s O to be off and away fro… With a gipsy for my dear! We’d make our bed in the bracken

I have laid you away as we lay The toys of a little dead child, You know you are safe in my heart; You know I have set you apart In my heart, and hid you away,

Pity all faithless women who have… How much it hurts a woman to do wr… The mother who has felt the child… Shall she forget her child, and th… Then pity faithless women who have…

That day a fire was in my blood; I could have sung: joy wrapt me ro… The men I met seemed all so good, I scarcely knew I trod the ground… How easy seemed all toil! I laugh…

Against the world I closed my hea… And, half in pride and half in fea… I said to Love and Lust: Depart; None enters here. A gipsy witch has glided in,

Once I smiled when I saw you, whe… And the joy of my heart was as foa… But the smile of your eyes grows s… Trembles back to my heart, and my… Once you laughed when you met me,…

For the statue of Lorenzetti,… Ye that pass by, come near and loo… I am despised, rejected and out-th… My garments are acquainted with th… My soul is bosom-mate of misery.

May we not love as others do, Dearest, because we love, A mistress I, a husband you? Nay, our delights must prove Either the double or the part

In the moonlit room your face, Moonlight-coloured, fainting white… And the silence of the place Round about us in the night, And my arms are round about you

Night, and the silence of the nigh… In Venice; far away, a song; As if the lyric water made Itself a serenade; As if the water’s silence were a s…

The moonlight touched the sombre w… Beneath the bridge ’twas darker.… She shivered. Her poor shawl was… And she was desolate, and it was n… The slow canal crept onward; to he…

As a perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leav…