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…

    Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind,     I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled    Leave the familiar gardens and…

       I     Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces,     The night we wandered off under the third moon’s rays    And, leaving far behind bright streets…

    The rooks aclamor when one enters here    Startle the empty towers far overhead;    Through gaping walls the summer fields appear,    Green, tan, or, poppy-mingled, tinged with red.    The courts…

   In the glad revels, in the happy fetes,     When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled    With the sweet wine of France that concentrates     The…