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SO with this farewell kiss I taste at lastThe all of life; the Future and the PastUpon your dear lips dwell.Love will not come again, though I..

They lie unwatched, in waste and vacant places,In sombre bush or wind-swept tussock spaces,Where seldom human treadAnd never human trace is—The..

Far in the Eastern passage-way a sudden light;The stone that blocked the sepulchre is backward rolled;And down into the fœtid, stifling vault of..

I.AS some faint wisp of fragrance, floating wide—A pennant-perfume on the evening air—From a walled garden, flower-filled and fair,To drape a sudden..

A LONE rose in a garden burned—a quivering flame,But yesterday blindly from out the bud it came;And now an envious wind with itching fingers leantAnd..

There are only two things in the world—The storm in the air and the stretch of green leaves;The flesh of the forest that quivers and heavesAs the..

ALONE with the silence, the sun and sky,Full length on the tussocky plain I lie:An ocean of yellow from east to westStill rolling and sweeping, far..

SHE glanced across the path to me,Grey eyes!Her looks were kisses plain to see.I gave her glances back to her—Glad eyes!She saw the lifting of..

IN a crooked angleOf a garden bower,'Neath a weedy tangleGrew a modest flower;Unpretending, unoffending,Gifted but with fancy,Unassuming in his..

I STAND in old Earth's presence; over allThe warm, pervading sunshine seems to printLife and the Present; and there is no glintOf white bones from..

THE stone that all the sullen centuries,With sluggish hands and massive fingers rude,Against the sepulchre of womanhoodHad sternly held, she has..

ALL the air was tranced and the sea was stilled,And we stood and dreamed of a world to be.When it seemed to me that our souls were thrilledWith a..

HER glance is equable, serene;She looks at life with level brow;She strides through circumstance—a queen!To compromise she cannot bow—Even to love..

THEY drew him from the darkened room,Where, swooning in a peace profound,Beneath a heavy fragrance drownedHer grey form glimmered in the gloom.Death..

THE WIDE sun stares without a cloud:Whipped by his glances truculentThe earth lies quivering and cowed.My heart is hot with discontent:I hate this..

“AND have I changed?” she asked, and as she spokeThe old smile o'er her pale face bravely broke,And in her eyes dead worlds of pathos woke.Changed?..

I AM a weakling. God, who madeThe still, strong man, made also me.The God who could the tiger plan,In his lithe splendour unafraid—A thing of flame..

ONCE more this Autumn-earth is ripe,Parturient of another type.While with the Past old nations mergeHis foot is on the Future’s verge.They watch him..

BENEATH this narrow jostling street,Unruffled by the noise of feet,Like a slow organ-note I hearThe pulses of the great world beat.Unseen beneath the..

The steady soaking of the rain,The bush all sad and sombre;The trees are weeping in their pain,Dank leaves the ground encumber.A dismal ghost of..

LAST night I saw the Pleiades again,Faint as a drift of steamFrom some tall chimney-stack;And I remembered you as you were then:Awoke dead worlds of..

About me leagues of houses lie,Above me, grim and straight and high,They climb; the terraces lean upLike long grey reefs against the sky.Packed tier..

She lies, a grave disdain all her defence,Too imperturbable for scorn. She hearsOnly the murmur of the flowing yearsThat thunder slowly on her shores..

All things must fade. There is for cities tallThe same tomorrow as for daffodils:Time's wind, that casts the seed, the petal spills.Grim London's..

One moment mankind rides the crested wave,A moment glorious, beyond recall;And then the wave, with slow and massive fall,Obliterates the beauty that..