Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream: Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day,...
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule,...
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,...
Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness for then...
Thou wouldst be loved? then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways,...
Seraph! thy memory is to me Like some enchanted far-off isle In some tumultuous sea, Some ocean vexed as it may be With storms; but where, meanwhile, Serenest skies continually...
Thy soul shall find itself alone Alone of all on earth, unknown The cause, but none are near to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness, for then...