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In your hidden memoriesThere are fatal tidings of doom...A curse on sacred traditions,A desecration of happiness;And a power so alluringThat I am..

I prefer the gorgeous freedom,And I fly to lands of grace,Where in wide and clear meadowsAll is good, as dreams, and blest.Here they rice: the clover..

IIIOur sons have goneto serve the Redsto serve the Redsto risk their heads!O bitter,bitter pain,Sweet living!A torn overcoatan Austrian gun!-To get..

A girl sang a song in the temple's chorus,About men, tired in alien lands,About the ships that left native shores,And all who forgot their joy to the..

I wait for you. The years in silence passAnd as the image, one, I wait for you again.The distance is in flame -- and clear one as glass,I, silent..

Don't fear death in earthly travels.Don't fear enemies or friends.Just listen to the words of prayers,To pass the facets of the dreads.Your death..

Never again shall he with wizard sleightEnsare on threshold of his soul the brightUnearthly splendors that would oft alight,And in the magic web of..

Because, my friends I have a savage gleeIn drinking to the dregs the draughts of lifeAnd love to feel my spirit spreading free,Stretching itself..

We watch your attitudes with candid eyes:Plain men are we, not given much to prate,Bluntly sincere, keenly compassionateBut lions in our wrath at..

These vessels of verse, O Great Goddess, are filled with invisible tears,With the sobs and sweat of my spirit and her desolate brooding for..

Ere Greece soared, showering sovranties of light,Ere Rome shook earth with her tremendous tread,Ere yon blue-feasting sun-god burst blood-red,Beneath..

(Written on the Queensland Beach)Poisonous, bloated, crab-like shapesCrawl in gangs around these capes—Stopping here and feeding there;Listening..

With eastern banners flaunting in the breezeRoyal processions, sounding fife and gongAnd showering jewels on the jostling throng,March to the tramp..

The weary wind is slumbering on the wing:Leaping from out meek twilight's purpling blueBurns the proud star of eve as though it knewIt was the big..

Dear old road, wheel-worn and broken,   Winding thro' the forest green,Barred with shadow and with sunshine,   Misty vistas drawn between.Grim..

The patient stars are shining large and clear;The crescent moon hangs like a tilted bowl;So calm, so still, that I can almost hearThoughts stirring..

I think to-night I could bear it all,   Even the arrow that cleft the core, --Could I wait again for your swift footfall,   And your sunny face..

Stand still my happiness, and swelling heartNo more, till I consider what thou art.Desire of knowledge was man's fatal vice,For when our parents were..

Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may seeA certain end of flesh and blood in thee;Till then a way was left for man to cry,Flesh may be made so..

I know too well, that, no more than the man,That travels through the burning desarts, can,When he is beaten with the raging sun,Half-smother'd with..

If thou hadst itch'd after the wild applauseOf common people, and hadst made thy lawsIn writing such as catch'd at present voice,I should commend the..

Hear, you bad writers, and though you not see,I will inform you where you happy be:Provide the most malicious thoughts you can,And bend them all..

If it might stand with justice to allowThe swift conversion of all follies; now,Such is my mercy, that I could admitAll sorts should equally approve..

Sleep not too much; nor longer than asleepWithin thy bed thy lazy body keep;For when thou, warm awake, shall feel it soft,Fond cogitations will..

When Cupid read this title, straight he said,'Wars, I perceive, against me will be made.'But spare, oh Love! to tax thy poet so,Who oft bath borne..