A tide of beauty with returning May    Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume    Odors endeared; down avenues in bloom    The chestnut-trees with phallic spires are gay.    Over…

    Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part;    Having long taught my flesh to master fear,    I should have learned by now to rule my…

   Amid the florid multitude her face    Was like the full moon seen behind the lace    Of orchard boughs where clouded blossoms part    When Spring shines in the world…

   If I was drawn here from a distant place,    ‘Twas not to pray nor hear our friend’s address,    But, gazing once more on your winsome face,    To worship…

    Up at his attic sill the South wind came    And days of sun and storm but never peace.    Along the town’s tumultuous arteries    He heard the heart-throbs of…

    Why should you be astonished that my heart,    Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth,    Should be revived by you, and stir and start    As by…

    There was a youth around whose early way    White angels hung in converse and sweet choir,    Teaching in summer clouds his thought to stray, –     In cloud and…

  Not that I always struck the proper mean    Of what mankind must give for what they gain,    But, when I think of those whom dull routine    And the…

    Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways,    Between the rivers and the illumined sky    Whose fervid depths reverberate from on high    Fierce lustres mingled in a…

    Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance    Came to its precious and most perfect flower,    Whether you tourneyed with victorious lance    Or brought sweet roundelays to Stella’s bower,    I…