Oft as by chance, a little while apart    The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,    Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,    Beams like the jewel on the…

   There have been times when I could storm and plead,    But you shall never hear me supplicate.    These long months that have magnified my need    Have made my…

    To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound    Whose stations Beauty’s bright examples are,    As of a silken city famed afar    Over the sands for wealth and holy…

   Oh, you are more desirable to me    Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,    Making my youth the sport of chance, to be    Blighted or torn in…

   Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,    The ponderous undertones of ‘bus and tram,    A garret and a glimpse across the roofs    Of clouds blown eastward…

    Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent    This day’s suggestive beauty as we ought,    I have gone forth alone and been content    To make you mistress…

    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…