Category: Poetry
PAGE Dedication vii LOVE IN DIAN’S LAP I. Before Her Portrait in Youth 3 II. To a Poet Breaking Silence 5 III. Manus Animam Pinxit 8 IV. A Carrier-Song 11 V. Scala Jacobi Portaque Eburnea 15 VI. Gilded Gold 16 VII. Her Portrait 18 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS To the Dead Cardinal of We...
PAGE Dedication vii LOVE IN DIAN’S LAP I. Before Her Portrait in Youth 3 II. To a Poet Breaking Silence 5 III. Manus Animam Pinxit 8 IV. A Carrier-Song 11 V. Scala Jacobi Portaq...
3. Chapter 3Naked I wait Thy love’s uplifted stroke! My harness piece by piece Thou hast hewn from me, And smitten me to my knee; I am defenceless utterly, I slept, methinks, and woke, And,...
2. Chapter 2The heavens do not advance their majesty Over their marge; beyond his empery The ensigns of the wind are not unfurled, His reign is hooped in by the pale o’ the world. ’Tis not...
4. Chapter 4How could I know, how know Those laughing words when drenched with sobbing so? Another voice than yours, than yours, he hath! My dear, was’t worth his breath, His mighty utteran...