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  • Sonnet 08
    Oh, love of woman, you are known to be
    A passion sent to plague the hearts of men;
    14 lines
  • Bellinglise
    Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds
    The head of a green valley that I know,
    29 lines
  • Sonnet XV
    Above the ruin of God's holy place,
    Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood,
    14 lines
  • Maktoob
    A shell surprised our post one day
    And killed a comrade at my side.
    68 lines
  • Champagne, 1914-15
    In the glad revels, in the happy fetes,
    When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled
    68 lines
  • The Deserted Garden
    I know a village in a far-off land
    Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain
    400 lines
  • The Wanderer
    To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so
    Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,
    52 lines
  • The Need To Love
    The need to love that all the stars obey
    Entered my heart and banished all beside.
    53 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
  • Introduction And Conclusion Of A Long Poem
    I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death
    And stood beside the cavern through whose doors
    75 lines
  • The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
    Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms
    Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew,
    119 lines
  • The Nympholept
    There was a boy -- not above childish fears --
    With steps that faltered now and straining ears,
    49 lines
  • El Extraviado
    Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind,
    I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled
    24 lines
  • La Nue
    Oft when sweet music undulated round,
    Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea
    52 lines
  • Fragments
    In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned
    Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules,
    83 lines
  • Sonnet II
    Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways,
    Between the rivers and the illumined sky
    14 lines
  • Paris
    First, London, for its myriads; for its height,
    Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite;
    174 lines
  • Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty
    There is a power whose inspiration fills
    Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought,
    175 lines
  • Sonnet 10
    I have sought Happiness, but it has been
    A lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • 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
  • A Message To America
    You have the grit and the guts, I know;
    You are ready to answer blow for blow
    129 lines
  • I Have A Rendezvous With Death. . .
    I have a rendezvous with Death
    At some disputed barricade,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • All That's Not Love . . .
    All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
    The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,
    16 lines
  • The Aisne
    We first saw fire on the tragic slopes
    Where the flood-tide of France's early gain,
    52 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 XVI
    Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest,
    With single rites the common debt to pay?
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Hosts
    Purged, with the life they left, of all
    That makes life paltry and
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
    (To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington in
    Paris, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.)
    105 lines, 1 comment
  • On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
    Thy petals yet are closely curled,
    Rose of the world,
    17 lines
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