At night—the light turned off, the… Unburdened of its atom-eating char… His wife asleep, her breathing dip… To touch a swampy source—he though… Her father’s hilltop home allowed…
All afternoon the shadows have bee… A city of their own within the str… Carefully correcting the perspecti… With dark diagonals, and paring ba… Sidewalks into catwalks, strips of…
A capuchin—long acquaintance with… Has left him taciturn—stands guard At gate and stairhead. Silent, he… The coin we drop into his dish, an… Withdraws to contemplation—though…
Waiting for breakfast, while she b… I looked down at the empty hotel y… Once meant for coaches. Cobblesto… But sent no light back to the load… Sunk as it was with mist down to t…
—Brook and road Were fellow—travellers in this glo… And with them did we journey sever… At a slow step. The immeasurable… Of woods decaying, never to be dec…
There was a Boy; ye knew him well… And islands of Winander! many a t… At evening, when the earliest star… To move along the edges of the hil… Rising or setting, would he stand…
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe… Thou Soul, that art the Eternity… And giv’st to forms and images a b… And everlasting motion! not in vai… By day or star—light, thus from my…
Five years have past; five summers… Of five long winters! and again I… These waters, rolling from their m… With a soft inland murmur.—Once a… Do I behold these steep and lofty…
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and… For mighty were the auxiliars whic… Upon our side, we who were strong… Bliss was it in that dawn to be al… But to be young was very heaven!—…
The Frost performs its secret min… Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s… Came loud—and hark, again! loud as… The inmates of my cottage, all at… Have left me to that solitude, whi…
Here, where precipitate Spring wi… Into hot Summer’s lusty arms expi… And where go forth at morn, at eve… Soft airs, that want the lute to p… And softer sighs, that know not wh…
O thou bright jewel in my aim I s… To comprehend thee. Thine own wor… Wisdom is higher than a fool can r… I cease to wonder, and no more att… Thine height t’explore, or fathom…
Poetry is the supreme fiction, mad… Take the moral law and make a nave… And from the nave build haunted he… The conscience is converted into p… Like windy citherns hankering for…
She sang beyond the genius of the… The water never formed to mind or… Like a body wholly body, flutterin… Its empty sleeves; and yet its mim… Made constant cry, caused constant…
He dines alone surrounded by refle… of himself. Then after sleep and b… descends the Cinquecento stair his… wrought from hypochondria of the w… to-do and nagging deathwish of the…
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and a… But One, who throng those bright… Which Thou and I alone of living… Behold with sleepless eyes! regard… Made multitudinous with thy slaves…
Traveling through the dark I foun… dead on the edge of the Wilson Ri… It is usually best to roll them in… that road is narrow; to swerve mig… By glow of the tail-light I stumb…
—Was it for this That one, the fairest of all Rive… To blend his murmurs with my Nurs… And from his alder shades and rock… And from his fords and shallows, s…
Thus far, O Friend! have we, thou… Unvisited, endeavour’d to retrace My life through its first years, a… The way I travell’d when I first… To love the woods and fields; the…
That day I oft remember, when fro… I first awak’d and found myself re… Under a shade, on flow’rs, much wo… And what I was, whence thither br… Not distant far from thence a murm…
Perplex’d and troubl’d at his bad… The Tempter stood, nor had what t… Discover’d in his fraud, thrown fr… So oft, and the perswasive Rhetor… That sleek’t his tongue, and won s…
So spake the Son of God, and Sat… A while as mute confounded what to… What to reply, confuted and convin… Of his weak arguing, and fallaciou… At length collecting all his Serp…
Mean while the new—baptiz’d, who y… At Jordan with the Baptist, and h… Him whom they heard so late expres… Jesus Messiah Son of God declar’… And on that high Authority had be…
Well, they are gone, and here must… This lime—tree bower my prison! I… Beauties and feelings, such as wou… Most sweet to my remembrance even… Had dimm’d mine eyes to blindness!…
This Sycamore, oft musical with b… Such tents the Patriarchs loved!… May all its agèd boughs o’er—canop… The small round basin, which this… Keeps pure from falling leaves! L…
Hast thou a charm to stay the morn… In his steep course? So long he s… On thy bald awful head, O sovran… The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most a…
The Year’s twelve daughters had i… Of measured pace tho’ varying mien… Some froward, some sedater, some a… For festival, some reckless of att… The snow had left the mountain—top…
So all day long the noise of battl… Among the mountains by the winter… Until King Arthur’s table, man by… Had fallen in Lyonnesse about the… King Arthur: then, because his wo…
The woods decay, the woods decay a… The vapours weep their burthen to… Man comes and tills the field and… And after many a summer dies the s… Me only cruel immortality
Tears, idle tears, I know not wha… Tears from the depth of some divin… Rise in the heart, and gather to t… In looking on the happy Autumn-fi… And thinking of the days that are…