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  • Sonnet V
    A tide of beauty with returning May
    Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume
    14 lines
  • Sonnet VII
    To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound
    Whose stations Beauty's bright examples are,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet IX
    Amid the florid multitude her face
    Was like the full moon seen behind the lace
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Virginibus Puerisque . . .
    I care not that one listen if he lives
    For aught but life's romance, nor puts above
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 01
    Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance
    Came to its precious and most perfect flower,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 04
    If I was drawn here from a distant place,
    'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnet VI
    Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,
    The ponderous undertones of 'bus and tram,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet VIII
    Oft as by chance, a little while apart
    The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet XI
    When among creatures fair of countenance
    Love comes enformed in such proud character,
    14 lines
  • The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
    Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
    And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
    14 lines
  • Sonnet XIV
    IT may be for the world of weeds and tares
    And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty's rose
    14 lines
  • The Nympholept
    There was a boy -- not above childish fears --
    With steps that faltered now and straining ears,
    49 lines
  • Sonnet III
    There was a youth around whose early way
    White angels hung in converse and sweet choir,
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 06
    Oh, you are more desirable to me
    Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,
    14 lines
  • Vivien
    Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools
    Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled
    14 lines
  • Sonnet X
    A splendor, flamelike, born to be pursued,
    With palms extent for amorous charity
    14 lines
  • The Sultan's Palace
    My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,
    As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;
    88 lines
  • Sonnet 02
    Not that I always struck the proper mean
    Of what mankind must give for what they gain,
    14 lines
  • Translations: Dante - Inferno, Canto XXVI
    Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea
    So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee
    144 lines
  • Sonnet IV
    Up at his attic sill the South wind came
    And days of sun and storm but never peace.
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 08
    Oh, love of woman, you are known to be
    A passion sent to plague the hearts of men;
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 07
    There have been times when I could storm and plead,
    But you shall never hear me supplicate.
    14 lines
  • The Wanderer
    To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so
    Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,
    52 lines
  • The Deserted Garden
    I know a village in a far-off land
    Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain
    400 lines
  • Sonnet 11
    Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed),
    Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue
    14 lines
  • Sonnet 12
    Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun,
    Depths of the azure eastern sky between,
    14 lines
  • The Hosts
    Purged, with the life they left, of all
    That makes life paltry and
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
    A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o'er.
    The world takes sides: whether for impious aims
    13 lines
  • Sonnet II
    Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways,
    Between the rivers and the illumined sky
    14 lines
  • Sonnet XV
    Above the ruin of God's holy place,
    Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood,
    14 lines
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