Give wings unto the storm, and spurs to steed,            I’d move unchained as wind across the world,    Sweep onward like a torrent mountain-hurled,            Nor sea, nor height, nor…

    From out the mosques the pious wend their way;            Muezzin voices tremble through the night;    Within the sky the pallid King of Light            Wraps silvered ermine round him…

   In ruin are the spacious, splendid halls            With frozen forest of white columns where    The Tartar Khan his palace builded fair,            Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls.    The ivy…

    The drooping, weary day night pushed aside;            On Tschatir Dagh the sullen sun and low    Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow;            While forest ways within, the wanderers hide.    Night…

    The mighty mountain flings its mist-veil down;            With little flowers the gracious fields are bright,    And from the forest colors flash to sight            Like gems that drop from…

    Broideries and ancient stuffs that some queen    Wore; nor gems that warriors’ hilts encrusted;    Nor fresh from heroes’ brows the laurels green;    Nor bright sheaves by bards of…

    And Lilith oft to Paradise returned,    For fierce within her, bitter hatred burned,    And better, dearer, seemed revenge than aught    She else desired. The coppice oft she sought,    Much…

    To that fair Elf-child other summers came;    But Lilith walked, heart-hungered, filled with shame,    Naught comforted. And in that shadow-land    She sorrowing bore, in after-time, a band    Of elfin…

    Wide through her realm she walked, and glad or lorn    She mused. So, loitering, it chanced one morn    When lone she sat upon a mountain height,    One sudden…

    Soft stealing through the shade, and skirting swift    The walls of Paradise, through night’s dark rift    Lilith fled far; nor stopped lest deadly snare    Or peril by the…