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…

    Pure as an angel’s dream shone Paradise.    Blue mountains hemmed it round; and airy sighs    Of rippling waters haunted it. Dim glades,    And wayward paths o’erflecked with shimmering…

    From the mystic sidereal spaces,    In the noon of a night ‘mid of May,    Came a spirit that murmured to me —    Or was it the dream of…

    Gone! and they return no more,     But they leave a light in the heart;    The murmur of waves that kiss a shore     Will never, I know,…

    The winds are singing a death-knell     Out on the main to-night;    The sky droops low — and many a bark     That sailed from harbors bright,        Like many…