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Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain,To lay in your loved hand as love's farewell.It is the thought we shall not meet againNerves me to..

Love, ere I go, forgive me each least wrong,Each trouble I unwittingly have wrought.My heart, my life, my tears to thee belong;Yet have I erred..

I sue thee not for pity on my case.If I have sinned, the judgment has begun.My joy was but one day of all the days,And clouds have blotted it and hid..

What have I gained? A little charity?I never more may dare to fling a stoneAt any weakness, nor make boast that IA better fence or fortitude had..

What have I lost? The faith I had that RightMust surely prove itself than Ill more strong.For see how little my poor prayers had mightTo save me, at..

Whate'er the cost to me, with this farewell,I shall not see thee, speak to thee again.If some on Earth must feel the pangs of Hell,Mine only be it..

The day draws nigh, methinks, when I could stayCalm in thy presence with no dream of ill,When, having put all earthliness away,I could be near thee..

Should ever the day come when this drear worldShall read the secret which so close I hold,Should taunts and jeers at my bowed head be hurled,And all..

Where is the pride for which I once was blamed,My vanity which held its head so high?Who would believe them, seeing me thus tamed,Thus subject, here..

Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet.Let me a little longer hold thy hand.Too soon it is to bid me to forgetThe joys I was so late to..

If the past year were offered me again,With choice of good and ill before me set.Should I be wiser for the bliss and painAnd dare to choose that we..

Clash your cymbals, maids, to--day.Chaunt the praise of Cynthia.You, her virgins, yokeless, free,Young Time's choice, his brides--to--be.Nymphs in..

I saw one rushing madly in pursuitOf Liberty. With frenzied steps he strode.Old laws and customs with disdainful footHe spurned beneath him in a mire..

Do you remember, Lucy,How, in the days gone byWe spent a summer together,A summer in Tuscany,In the chestnut woods by the river,You and the rest and..

Nature that day a woman was in weakness,A woman in her impotent high wrath.At the dawn we watched it, a low cloud half seenUnder the sun; an innocent..

There is a God most surely in the heavens,Who smileth always, though His face be hid.And young Joy cometh as His messengerUpon the Earth, like to a..

I thought that I had done with fleshly things,That in the azure of high thought my soulHad learned to fly on less substantial wingsTo a new Heaven, a..

Oh, for a perfect sonnet of all time!Wild music, heralding immortal hopes,Strikes the bold prelude. To it from each clime,Like tropic birds on some..

The Moon has gone to her rest,A full hour ago.The Pleiads have found a nestIn the waves below.Slow, the Hours one by oneIn Midnight's footsteps..

I saw one sitting on a kingly throne,A man of age, whom Time had touched with white;White were his brows, and white his vestment shone,And white the..

I will release my soul of argument.He that would love must follow with shut eyes.My reason of the years was discontent,My treasure for all hope a..

The majesty of Rome to me is nought;The imperial story of her conquering carTouches me only with compassionate thoughtFor the doomed nations faded by..

At last I kneel in Rome, the bourne, the goalOf what a multitude of laden hearts!No pilgrim of them all a wearier soulBrought ever here, no master of..

Ancient of days! What word is thy commandTo one befooled of wit and his own way?What counsel hast thou, and what chastening handFor a lost soul grown..

O fool! O false! I have abandoned Heaven,And sold my wealth for metal of base kind.O frail disciple of a fair creed givenFor human hope when all the..