Category: Poetry
As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory, And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs For that bright vision till her hair is hoary; Ev'n so, alas! is my life's-passion story. For Poesy my heart and pulses beat, For Poesy my blood r...
This is the dwelling you have told me of,-- Summer again hath dressed its bloomy walls, Its fragrant front is populous with bees; This is the garden--all is very like, And yet u...
4. SCENE IV.'Tis that loveliest stream. I've learned by heart its sweet and devious course By frequent tracing, as a lover learns The features of his best-beloved's face. In memory it runs,...
2. SCENE II.Halt! Flora, halt! This race Has danced my ringlets all about my brows, And brought my cheeks to bloom. Here will I rest And weave a garland for thy dappled neck. [_Weaves flowe...
9. SCENE VIII.She grows on me like moonrise on the night-- My life is shaped in spite of me, the same As ocean by his shores. Why am I here? The weary sun was lolling in the west, Edward and...
7. SCENE VI.My head is grey, my blood is young, Red-leaping in my veins, The spring doth stir my spirit yet To seek the cloistered violet, The primrose in the lanes. In heart I am a very bo...
10. SCENE IX.We read and wrote together, slept together; We dwelt on slopes against the morning sun, We dwelt in crowded streets, and loved to walk While Labour slept; for, in the ghastly da...
8. SCENE VII.The lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He de...
3. SCENE III.Thou day beyond to-morrow! though my life Should cease in thee, I'd dash aside the hours That intervene to bring thee quicklier here. Again to meet her in the windy woods! When...
11. SCENE X.Adam lost Paradise--eternal tale Repeated in the lives of all his sons. I had a shining orb of happiness, God gave it me; but sin passed over it As small-pox passes o'er a lovel...
13. SCENE XII.It was; each word sincere, As blood-drops from the heart. The full-faced moon, Set round with stars, in at his casement looked, And saw him write and write: and when the moon Wa...
1. SCENE I.--_An Antique Room: Midnight.As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory, And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs For that bright vision till her hair is hoary;...
6. Scene IV.Sunset is burning like the seal of God Upon the close of day.--This very hour Night mounts her chariot in the eastern glooms To chase the flying Sun, whose flight has left Footp...
12. SCENE XI.Summer hath murmured with her leafy lips Around my home, and I have heard her not; I've missed the process of three several years, From shaking wind-flowers to the tarnished gol...
5. SCENE V.