Works

("Elle est toute petite.")

[Bk. XXVI.]


She is so little - in her hands a rose:
A stern duenna watches where she goes,
What sees Old Spain's Infanta - the clear shine...

("Aveugle comme Hom're.")

[Improvised at the Caf' de Paris.]


Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
But one weak child to guide his vision dim....

It was a humble church, with arches low,
The church we entered there,
Where many a weary soul since long ago
Had past with plaint or prayer.

Mournful and still it was at day's decline,...