As one of some fat tillage dispossessed,    Weighing the yield of these four faded years,    If any ask what fruit seems loveliest,    What lasting gold among the garnered…

    Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools    Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled    Clothed her as sunshine clothes the summer world.    Her robes were gauzes…

    I care not that one listen if he lives    For aught but life’s romance, nor puts above    All life’s necessities the need to love,    Nor counts his greatest…

   Florence, rejoice! For thou o’er land and sea    So spread’st thy pinions that the fame of thee    Hath reached no less into the depths of Hell.    So noble…

    Ruggiero, to amaze the British host,    And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks,    The bridle of his winged courser loosed,    And clapped his spurs into the creature’s…

    A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o’er.    The world takes sides: whether for impious aims    With Tyranny whose bloody toll enflames    A generous people to…

    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…