He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour.     Distant, across the thundering organ-swell,    In sweet discord from the cathedral-tower,     Fall the faint chimes and…

    Another prospect pleased the builder’s eye,    And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)    Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes    When first these gables rose against the sky.    Relic of a…

    There was a boy – not above childish fears –     With steps that faltered now and straining ears,    Timid, irresolute, yet dauntless still,    Who one bright dawn, when…

    The need to love that all the stars obey     Entered my heart and banished all beside.    Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;     Faded…

     Purged, with the life they left, of all    That makes life paltry and mean and small,    In their new dedication charged    With something heightened, enriched, enlarged,    That lends…

    I know a village in a far-off land     Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain    With tinted walls a space on either hand     And fed by many…

    Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon’s rays    More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid    By the light veils they burned and blushed amid,    Skilled to…

    We first saw fire on the tragic slopes     Where the flood-tide of France’s early gain,    Big with wrecked promise and abandoned hopes,     Broke in a surf…

    Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold,    Thou wert sometime the garden of a king.    The birds have sought a lovelier place to sing.    The flowers…

   Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest,    With single rites the common debt to pay?    On some green headland fronting to the East    Our fairest boy…