Category: Poetry
Fierce Neptune’s daughter, beneath the water, In grottoes cool dwelt I, And, laughing, hid in the seashell’s lid, As fishes arrowed by. My feet were free to the undersea; I played amidst its gloom, And in the deep where the mermaids weep Above the hero’s tomb, Where the sea sn...
Fierce Neptune’s daughter, beneath the water, In grottoes cool dwelt I, And, laughing, hid in the seashell’s lid, As fishes arrowed by. My feet were free to the undersea; I play...
2. Part 2I am the month of warm, passionate love, When Earth silent lies, with shy longings opprest, While soft sighs stir her breast. All unclasped is her zone, and the Sun’s warm lips...
3. Part 3Beside the murmurous streams that wind Beneath the tangled foliage-meshes Some sleeping naiad we may find, With charms the inmost soul deems precious. And deep within the tawny...
4. Part 4Angels spake hope to her there, as she stood in the vale of the shadow, Demons snarled at her heels, she was haunted by visions abhorred; But Love was a lamp to her feet as she...
5. Part 5One clasp of my strong hands at will could break Thy tender body, like a fragile flower. How darest thou prey of my heart to make, And plot against my power?
6. Part 6Flowers are earth’s resurrection, yet the rocks, Ere raised in blossoms, first shall fall to dust. Take comfort, then, O brother, when life mocks Thine aspirations, as perforce...