O Hymen! O hymenee!Why do you tantalize me thus?O why sting me for a swift moment only?Why can you not continue? O why do you…

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells…

O bitter sprig! Confession sprig!In the bouquet I give you place also – I bind you in,Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,I give fair warning,…

Now list to my morning’s romanza – I tell the signs of the Answerer;To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the…

Now finale to the shore!Now, land and life, finale, and farewell!Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)Often enough hast thou adventur’d…

Not youth pertains to me,Nor delicatesse – I cannot beguile the time with talk;Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;In the learn’d coterie…

Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back, and many times baffled;Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and…

Not my enemies ever invade me – no harm to my pride from them I fear;But the lovers I recklessly love – lo! how they…

Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only;Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself;Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs;Not in many an oath…

Not heat flames up and consumes,Not sea-waves hurry in and out,Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along…