TRANSPORTED out of self by Y… Emulous of love, to Love’s empyre… Where I beheld you aureoled in li… My soul upsprang on wings of angel… Far, far below, the earth and all…
No butterfly whose frugal fare Is breath of heliotrope and clove, And other trifles light as air, Could live on less than doth my lo… That childlike smile that comes an…
The twilight heavens are flushed w… And o’er wet roofs and huddling st… Hang with a strange Apocalyptic g… On the black fringes of the wintry… Such bursts of glory may have rapt…
What magic is there in thy mien What sorcery in thy smile, Which charms away all cark and car… Which turns the foul days into fai… And for a little while
ON THE RIVIERA. In tortuous windings up the steep… The sombre street toils to the vil… Whose antique walls in stone and m… Dumb witness to the Moor. Afar of…
You make the sunshine of my heart And its tempestuous shower; Sometimes the thought of you is li… A lilac bush in flower, Yea, honey-sweet as hives in May.
I was an Arab, I loved my horse; Swift as an arrow He swept the course. Sweet as a lamb
CEDARS of Lebanon! Labyrinths… Making a mystery of open day; With layers of gloom keeping the… And solemn boughs which never bloo… Contemporaries of that great Crus…
FLEETER than a tone scarce born That melts away, Sweeter than a dream of morn That shuns the day, Swifter than a rainbow fading out…
The storm which shook the silence… And sleeping pinnacles of ancient… Went muttering off in one last thu… Mixed with a moan of multitudinous… Yea, even as one who has wept much…
‘Earth, earth on the mouth of Ora… THE storm had ceased to rave: sub… Lashed ocean heaved, and then lay… From the clear North a little bre… Severing the clouds: high o’er a w…
O’er this huge town, rife with int… Whence as from monstrous sacrifici… Pillars of smoke climb heavenward,… Black brows majestical with glimme… Her dewy silence soothes life’s an…
Your looks have touched my soul wi… Ineffable emotion; As moonbeams on a stormy night Illume with transitory light A seagull on her lonely flight
Oh haste while roses bloom below, Oh haste while pale and bright abo… The sun and moon alternate glow, To pluck the rose of love. Yea, give the morning to the lark,
Dark sod pierced by flames of flow… Dead wood freshly quickening, Bright skies dusked with sudden sh… Lit by rainbows on the wing. Cuckoo calls and young lambs’ blea…