Accursed be the hour of that sad d… The careless potter put his hand t… And dared to fashion out of common… So pure a shape as thou didst seem… An idle boy, when vintage was begu…

SIBYLLINE BOOKS When first, a boy, at your fair kn… ’Twas with a worthy offering. In… My young life’s book I held, a vo… Which none but you, I deemed, mig…

THE SAME CONTINUED I do not love you. To have said t… Had seemed to both of us a monstro… An idle boast, love’s last extrava… Or the mere paradox of vanity.

THE MOCKERY OF LIFE God! What a mockery is this life… Cast forth in blood and pain from… Most like an excrement, and weepin… Of senseless tears: unreasoning, n…

These are the time-words of Merly… All his wisdom of life, the fruit… All the wit of his years unsealed,… These are his time-gifts of song,… Words of an expert of life, who ha…

AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER If I had chosen thee, thou should… A virgin proud, untamed, immaculat… Chaste as the morning star, a sain… Scarred by no wars, no violence of…

THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED How the earth burns! Each pebble… Is as a living thing with power to… The white sand quivers, and the fo… Of the slow camels strikes but giv…

THE SAME CONTINUED I see you, Juliet, still, with yo… Loaded with vines, and with your d… On which those thirty years so lig… And the white outline of your musl…

Away! Away! Away with her, young… Away with her in haste lest dawn s… If that her kinsmen should thy dee… Ill might it fare with thee for he… Away with her to thine own palace…

THE SAME CONTINUED Thy ways were not my ways. Thy li… And mine has been a battle. Thou… Thy soul’s wealth sternly to a sur… And thy revenue’s much still swell…

I will release my soul of argument… He that would love must follow wit… My reason of the years was discont… My treasure for all hope a vain su… I will have done with wisdom’s sop…

Who shall declare the glory of the… The natural World before Man’s fo… Fair stainless planet through the… And clothed in garments of immorta… What depths of forest girt her! W…

‘I do not doubt it. You have a lo… Which is beyond suspicion. But th… Is as full of knaves as fools. Yo… And I my wisdom. Then your head i… Just as I like it, and your face…

TO ONE WHO LOVED HIM I cannot love you, love, as you lo… In singleness of soul, and faith u… I have no faith in any destiny, In any Heaven, even at your side.

Since that it may not be, The thing my soul desires, And that Love’s tenderer fires Are doomed to loss and Time’s ste… Ours be it this one day