I vex me not with brooding on the… That were ere I drew breath; why… Distrust the darkness that may fal… When life is done? Perchance in o… Dead planets—I once tasted mortal…

One by one they go Into the unknown dark— Star-lit brows of the brave, Voices that drew men’s souls. Rich is the land, O Death!

Listen my masters! I speak naught… From dawn to dawn they drifted on… Not knowing wither nor to what dar… Now the North froze them, now the… Some called to God, and found gre…

It was with doubt and trembling I whispered in her ear. Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough… That all the world may hear— _Sweetheart, sigh no more_!

A man should live in a garret aloo… And have few friends, and go poorl… With an old hat stopping the chink… To keep the Goddess constant and… Of old, when I walked on a rugged…

To spring belongs the violet, and… Spice of the roses let the summer… Grant me this favor, Muse—all els… That I may not write verse when I… And yet I pray you, Muse, delay t…

Pleasant it is to lie amid the gra… Under these shady locusts, half th… Watching the ships reflected on th… Topmast and shroud, as in a wizard… To note the swift and meagre swall…

Curled up and sitting on her feet. Within the window’s deep embrasure… Is Lydia; and across the street, A lad, with eyes of roguish azure, Watches her buried in her book.

While yet my lip was breathing you… I all too young to know their deep… I saw Medea and Phædra in Rache… Later I saw the great Elizabeth. Rachel, Ristori—we shall speak wi…

Fantastic sleep is busy with my ey… I seem in some waste solitude to s… Once ruled of Cheops; upon either… A dark illimitable desert lies, Sultry and still—a zone of mysteri…

Here, in the twilight, at the well… I linger, with no heart to enter m… Among the elm-tops the autumnal ai… Murmurs, and spectral in the fadin… A solitary heron wings its way

Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell Into this world of ours? The gates of heaven were left ajar… With folded hands and dreamy eyes,

Because the sky is blue; because b… Masks in the wren’s note and the l… Because—in fine, because the sky i… I will read none but piteous tales… Keep happy laughter till the skies…

NOT with slow, funereal sound Come we to this sacred ground; Not with wailing fife and solemn m… Bringing a cypress wreath To lay, with bended knee,

The new moon hung in the sky, the… And my betrothed and I in the chu… Happy maiden and lover, dreaming t… The light winds wandered by, and r… And lo! in the meadow sweet was th…