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Song On May Morning
Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. Hail bounteous Ma
Kissing Helena
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Came to my lips, and there I kept it,-- For the poor thing had wandered thither, To follow where the kiss should guid
Song From the Wandering Jew
See yon opening flower Spreads its fragrance to the blast; It fades within an hour, Its decay is pale--is fast. Paler is yon maiden; Faster is her heart's decay; Deep with sorrow laden, She sinks in d
Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
We, the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk and peep us. Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer,
To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems
I can write no stately proem As a prelude to my lay; From a poet to a poem I would dare to say. For if of these fallen petals One to you seem fair, Love will waft it till it settles On your hair. An
"Heaven" -- is what I cannot reach!
"Heaven" -- is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree -- Provided it do hopeless -- hang -- That -- "Heaven" is -- to Me! The Color, on the Cruising Cloud -- The interdicted Land -- Behind the Hi
On Robert Emmet's Grave
... No trump tells thy virtues--the grave where they rest With thy dust shall remain unpolluted by fame, Till thy foes, by the world and by fortune caressed, Shall pass like a mist from the light of
Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc
There is a voice, not understood by all, Sent from these desert-caves. It is the roar Of the rent ice-cliff which the sunbeams call, Plunging into the vale--it is the blast Descending on the pines--th
Church Music
Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Did through my body wound my mind, You took me thence, and in your house of pleasure A dainty lodging me assigned. Now I in you without a body move,
The Birth of Pleasure
At the creation of the Earth Pleasure, that divinest birth, From the soil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies-- Like an exhalation wreathing To the sound of air low-breathing Through Ae
Some, too fragile for winter winds
Some, too fragile for winter winds The thoughtful grave encloses -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet are cold. Never the treasures in her nest The cautious grave exposes, Buildin
I many times thought Peace had come
I many times thought Peace had come When Peace was far away -- As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight the Land -- At Centre of the Sea -- And struggle slacker -- but to prove As hopelessly as I -- How man
I never felt at Home -- Below
I never felt at Home -- Below -- And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home -- I know -- I don't like Paradise -- Because it's Sunday -- all the time -- And Recess -- never comes -- And Eden'
Their Height in Heaven comforts not --
Their Height in Heaven comforts not -- Their Glory -- nought to me -- 'Twas best imperfect -- as it was -- I'm finite -- I can't see -- The House of Supposition -- The Glimmering Frontier that Skirts
When I hoped I feared --
When I hoped I feared -- Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain -- Spectre cannot harm -- Serpent cannot charm -- He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him --
Like Rain it sounded till it curved
Like Rain it sounded till it curved And then I new 'twas Wind -- It walked as wet as any Wave But swept as dry as sand -- When it had pushed itself away To some remotest Plain A coming as of Hosts was
Whatever it is -- she has tried it --
Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- Do not chastise the Dove -- Not for Ourselves, petition -- Nothing is left to pray -- When a subject is fin
Summer -- we all have seen --
Summer -- we all have seen -- A few of us -- believed -- A few -- the more aspiring Unquestionably loved -- But Summer does not care -- She goes her spacious way As eligible as the moon To our Temeri
Birthday of but a single pang
Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come -- Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent the doom --
The Winters are so short
The Winters are so short -- I'm hardly justified In sending all the Birds away -- And moving into Pod -- Myself -- for scarcely settled -- The Phoebes have begun -- And then -- it's time to strike my
To her derided Home
To her derided Home A Weed of Summer came -- She did not know her station low Nor Ignominy's Name -- Bestowed a summer long Upon a frameless flower -- Then swept as lightly from disdain As Lady from h
How the Waters closed above Him
How the Waters closed above Him We shall never know -- How He stretched His Anguish to us That -- is covered too -- Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies Bold above the Boy Whose unclaimed Hat and Jack
Pain -- expands the Time --
Pain -- expands the Time -- Ages coil within The minute Circumference Of a single Brain -- Pain contracts -- the Time -- Occupied with Shot Gamuts of Eternities Are as they were not --
Fragment: To a Friend Released From Prison
For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble In my faint eyes, and that my heart beat fast With feelings which make rapture pain resemble, Yet, from thy voice that falsehood starts aghast, I thank