Gifts
You ask me what since we must part You shall bring back to me. Bring back a pure and faithful heart As true as mine to thee.You talk of gems from foreign lands,read more
View ArticleFor some we loved
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from His vintage rolling Time hath pressed, Have drunk the Cup a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
View ArticleFor Jane
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works? in this room the hours of loveread more
View ArticleFor Each Ecstatic Instant
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay. In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthingsread more
View ArticleEvening Song
Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea; How long they kiss in sight of all the lands, Ah! longer, longer we.read more
View ArticleDecade
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant.read more
View ArticleCome Slowly
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars -alights, And is lost in balms!
View ArticleCome Fill The Cup
Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring Your winter garment of repentance fling. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.
View ArticleAh, My Beloved
Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears Today of past regrets and future fears; Tomorrow? Why, tomorrow I may be, Myself, with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
View ArticleA Book of Verse
A book of verse, underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness - Ah, wilderness were paradise enow!
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