Fast-anchor’d, eternal, O love! O woman I love!O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!Then separate, as disembodied, or…

Facing west, from California’s shores,Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of…

Sauntering the pavement, or riding the country by-road–lo! such faces!Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality;The spiritual, prescient face–the always welcome, common, benevolent face,The face…

Who has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther?And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of the…

Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,Like lightning it le’pt forth half startled at itself,Its feet upon the ashes and…

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human,With your woolly-white and turban’d head, and bare bony feet?Why, rising by the roadside here, do you…

Elemental drifts!How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb’d with an ebb of the ocean of…

I met a seer,Passing the hues and objects of the world,The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,To glean eidolons. Put in thy chants said…

Earth! my likeness!Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,I now suspect that is not all;I now suspect there is something fierce in you,…

Aroused and angry,I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war;But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d, and I resign’d myself,To sit…