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  • "Caeli Enarrant"
    Oh I marvellous the skies
            Ere sunset close
    47 lines
  • At Dusk
    Eve, and the stainèd pinions of the day,
        Far-sinking as an eagle to her nest
    15 lines
  • The Swoon
    Upon me (as on Siddim's lethal plain
        And on the cities of accurst desire
    14 lines
  • Alter-Flame
    I saw a mountain at the close of day,
        Snow-crowned and lonely, where the after-glow
    14 lines
  • At the Lily's Heart
    Within me (roguish brother!) lives a faun
        Demure as any whom Arcadian bees
    14 lines
  • Atthan Dances - From "Lilith"
    The silver of the lyre
        Cries, and thy silver feet
    23 lines
  • Autumn (StC)
    Ah! well I know that I shall never find
        Thy like this side of Heaven! Well I know
    15 lines
  • Civilization at Bay
    Can there be one whose blood from England finds
        Nurture and source, who sees her war to-day
    14 lines
  • Youth and Time
    Once as a boy I dreamed
    Where wider waters gleamed
    25 lines
  • "You Never Can Tell"
    Spindrift and bilge and the world turns over!
        What is the dross and what the gold?
    28 lines
  • Yosemite
        I
    Beauty, whose face and mystery we seek,
    406 lines
  • "In Carmel pines the summer wind"
    In Carmel pines the summer wind
    Sings like a distant sea.
    8 lines
  • Omnium Exeunt In Mysterium
    The stranger in my gates -- lo! that am I,
    And what my land of birth I do not know,
    13 lines
  • The First Food
    Mother, in some sad evening long ago,
    From thy young breast my groping lips were taken,
    29 lines
  • White Magic
    KEEP ye her brow with starshine crost
    And bind with ghostly light her hair,
    36 lines
  • The Tides of Change
    Herewith is Beauty fashioned? Canst thou deem
    Her evanescent roses bourgeon save
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Swimmers
    We were eight fishers of the western sea,
    Who sailed our craft beside a barren land,
    104 lines
  • No Cloud is on the Heavens
    No cloud is on the heavens, and on the sea
    No sail: the immortal, solemn ocean lies
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Moonlight in the Pines
    Full-starred, seraphic Night arose,
    Lifting the Pleiades' dim lyre
    73 lines, 2 comments
  • Memory
    He stands beside the ocean of the Past,
    A diver. Pearls and hydras can she bring,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Huntress of Stars
    Tell me, O Night! what horses hale the moon!
    Those of the sun rear now on Syria's day,
    14 lines
  • Happiest
    Calling you now, not for your flesh I call,
       Nor for the mad, long raptures of the night
    15 lines, 8 comments
  • The Golden Past
    I
    Within the stillness of the crypt he lay--
    34 lines
  • Flame
    Thou  art that madness of supreme desire,
    Which lacking, beauty is but dross and clay.
    13 lines, 6 comments
  • The Black Vulture
    Aloof within the day's enormous dome,
    He holds unshared the silence of the sky.
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Ballad of the Seeker
    John o' Dreams fled North, fled North,
      Led by a certain star,
    24 lines
  • The Caged Eagle
    Dost hear the west wind calling thee afar,
        O thou that hast beheld the night withdrawn,
    48 lines
  • Beauty
    The fairest things seem ever loneliest:
        The whitest lily ever blooms alone,
    14 lines
  • Ballad of Two Seas
    "Wherefore, thy woe these many years,
    O hermit by the sea?
    73 lines
  • Autumn
    How droops the troubled year
    And now her tiny sunset stains the leaf.
    20 lines, 1 comment
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