A SPECKLED cat and a tame hare
Eat at my hearthstone
And sleep there;
And both look up to me alone
For learning and defence

WHAT sort of man is coming
To lie between your feet?
What matter, we are but women.
Wash; make your body sweet;
I have cupboards of dried fragranc

Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
On every crowded street to stare
Upon great Juan riding by:
Even like these to rail and sweat

WHAT need you, being come to sen
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, un
You have dried the marrow from the

I WOULD that we were, my belove
We tire of the flame of the meteor
And the flame of the blue star of
Has awakened in our hearts, my bel
A weariness comes from those dream

WE sat together at one summer’s e
That beautiful mild woman, your cl
And you and I, and talked of poet
I said, 'A line will take us hour
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s

Under your old wind-beaten tower,
A lamp burns on beside the open bo
That Michael Robartes left, you w
And though you have passed the bes
Enthralled by the unconquerable de

Where, where but here have pride a
That long to give themselves for w
To shake their wicked sides at you
Restraining reckless middle-age?

THROUGH intricate motions ran
Stream and gliding sun
And all my heart seemed gay:
Some stupid thing that I had done
Made my attention stray.

COME swish around, my pretty pun
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.
Sobriety is a jewel