The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break....
Fear death? to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe;...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loric and low-browed Gorgon on the breast,...
Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last: Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim. Where spurting and suppressed it lay, For not a froth-flake touched the rim...
Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady, could'st thou know!) May turn away thick with fast-gathering tears: I glance not where all gaze: thrilling and low Their passionate praises reach thee my cheek wears...
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews, sons mine . . . ah God, I know not! Well, She, men would have to be your mother once,...
I. It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,...
Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince, I will begin, as is, these seven years now, My daily wont, and read a History (Written by one whose deft right hand was dust To the last digit, ages ere my birth)...
What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran, Made Pope at our last Conclave? Full low his life began: His father earned the daily bread as just a fisherman. ...
I hear a voice, perchance I heard Long ago, but all too low, So that scarce a care it stirred If the voice was real or no: I heard it in my youth when first The waters of my life outburst:...