I know not why my soul is rack'd Why I ne'er smile as was my wont: I only know that, as a fact, I don't. I used to roam o'er glen and glade Buoyant and blithe as other folk:...
New doth the sun appear, The mountains' snows decay, Crown'd with frail flowers forth comes the baby year. My soul, time posts away; And thou yet in that frost Which flower and fruit hath lost,...
Five months ago the stream did flow, The lilies bloomed within the sedge, And we were lingering to and fro, Where none will track thee in this snow, Along the stream, beside the hedge....
Que fais tu bergere dans ce beau verger Tu ne songe gueres a me soulager? Tu connois ma flamme, tu vois ma langueur, Prens belle inhumaine pitie de mon coeur.
Bient't nous plongerons dans les froides t'n'bres; Adieu vive clart' de nos 't's trop courts! J'entends d'j' tomber avec des chocs fun'bres Le bois retentissant sur le pav' des cours. ...
Veiled in visionary haze, Behold, the ethereal autumn days Draw near again! In broad array, With a low, laborious hum These ministers of plenty come, That seem to linger, while they steal away....
Chanting the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new--out of the square entirely divine, Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed)... from this side Jehovah am I,...
Me that 'ave been what I've been, Me that 'ave gone where I've gone, Me that 'ave seen what I've seen, 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again, An' 'ouses both sides of the street,...
Look at those sleeping children; softly tread, Lest thou do mar their dream, and come not nigh Till their fond mother, with a kiss, shall cry, 'Tis morn, awake! awake! Ah! they are dead!...
Who lives in suit of armour pent And hides himself behind a wall, For him is not the great event, The garland nor the Capitol. And is God's guerdon less than they? Nay, moral man, I tell thee Nay:...
What nights retard thee, O Sirius! Thy light is as a spear, And thou penetratest them As a warrior that stabbeth his foe Even to the center of his life. Thy rays reach farther than the gulfs;...