So when the verdure of his life was shed,    With all the grace of ripened manlihead,    And on his locks, but now so lovable,    Old age like desolating…

    To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so    Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,    Back of old-storied spires and architraves    To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut,…

    Their strength had fed on this when Death’s white arms    Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew,    Curling across the jungle’s ferny floor,    Becking each fevered brain. On…

    My spirit only lived to look on Beauty’s face,     As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;    As in their flesh inheres the impulse…

    He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour.     Distant, across the thundering organ-swell,    In sweet discord from the cathedral-tower,     Fall the faint chimes and…

    Another prospect pleased the builder’s eye,    And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)    Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes    When first these gables rose against the sky.    Relic of a…

    There was a boy – not above childish fears –     With steps that faltered now and straining ears,    Timid, irresolute, yet dauntless still,    Who one bright dawn, when…

    The need to love that all the stars obey     Entered my heart and banished all beside.    Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;     Faded…

     Purged, with the life they left, of all    That makes life paltry and mean and small,    In their new dedication charged    With something heightened, enriched, enlarged,    That lends…

    I know a village in a far-off land     Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain    With tinted walls a space on either hand     And fed by many…