Oft when sweet music undulated round,     Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea    Thine image from the waves of blissful sound     Rose and thy…

    Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down    In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;    Twine yellow roses for the drinker’s crown;    Let music reach and fair heads…

     I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death    And stood beside the cavern through whose doors    Enter the voyagers into the unseen.    From that dread threshold…

   I loved illustrious cities and the crowds    That eddy through their incandescent nights.    I loved remote horizons with far clouds    Girdled, and fringed about with snowy heights.    I loved…

     I have a rendezvous with Death    At some disputed barricade,    When Spring comes back with rustling shade    And apple-blossoms fill the air –     I have a rendezvous with…

    What is Success? Out of the endless ore    Of deep desire to coin the utmost gold    Of passionate memory; to have lived so well    That the fifth moon,…

    For there were nights . . . my love to him whose brow    Has glistened with the spoils of nights like those,    Home turning as a conqueror…

    There was a time when I thought much of Fame,    And laid the golden edifice to be    That in the clear light of eternity    Should fitly house the…

    In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned    Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules,    I too have been a suitor. Radiant eyes    Were my life’s warmth and sunshine,…

    O happiness, I know not what far seas,     Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround,    That thus in Music’s wistful harmonies     And concert of sweet…