BECAUSE there is safety in deri
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sens
Distrustful of thar popular eye

YOU gave, but will not give again
Until enough of paudeen’s pence
By Biddy’s halfpennies have lain
To be 'some sort of evidence’,
Before you’ll put your guineas dow

THESE are the clouds about the f
The majesty that shuts his burning
The weak lay hand on what the stro
Till that be tumbled that was lift
And discord follow upon unison,

PYTHAGORAS planned it. Why d
His numbers, though they moved or
In marble or in bronze, lacked cha
But boys and girls, pale from the
Of solitary beds, knew what they w

Chorus. Come praise Colonus’ hors
The wine-dark of the wood’s intric
The nightingale that deafens dayli
If daylight ever visit where,
Unvisited by tempest or by sun,

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

Under the Great Comedian’s tomb t
A bundle of tempestuous cloud is b
About the sky; where that is clear
Brightness remains; a brighter sta
What shudders run through all that

A Dramatic Poem
The deck of an ancient ship. At
with a large square sail hiding a
on that side. The tiller is at th
coming through an opening in the b

FASTEN your hair with a golden
And bind up every wandering tress;
I bade my heart build these poor r
It worked at them, day out, day in
Building a sorrowful loveliness

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