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  • Proem.
    I only knew one poet in my life.
    — BROWNING.
    97 lines
  • At The Back Of The Brain.
    At the back of the brain a picture lies
    Of all we have been and done,
    11 lines
  • Urania's Lover.
    O poet, thou art called to tread her ways,
    Hers, mistress of the soul, Urania fair.
    39 lines
  • The Ghost Ship.
    Behold her on the silent sea,
    Yon vessel like a spirit there!
    23 lines
  • The Isles Of Sleep.
    The opiate isles upon time's sea
    In the dream-dark
    34 lines
  • Love In Hades.
    I saw Love pass with Charon down
    The pale infernal tide,
    27 lines
  • The Storm.
    I can hear the great boughs swing
    Through the stormy night,
    41 lines
  • A Memory.
    She had an other-worldly air,
    So like a flower she grew,
    15 lines
  • Song #2.
    Have I not touched thy spirit?
    Have I not heard it sing?
    7 lines
  • The Gleaners.
    They sang, that were the young world's gleaners,
    Like birds on a bough,
    11 lines
  • The Lyric Rose.
    What other work in the world have I
    Than but to sing my song, and die?
    16 lines
  • For love I, too, could die (she said) nor fear it,
    Such love as some of the dead queens have had
    Whose sorrow matched their beauty. I could bear it,
    12 lines
  • Song #3.
    Love's but to be had this way:
    Reverent you must be with her,
    15 lines
  • Dies Irae.
    The last great Day it may be near,
    Or Man may pass ere it comes here.
    17 lines
  • The Poem.
    These bones have life, and this heart knows
    The poem that this hand has writ
    15 lines
  • An Aspiration.
    Music, with the tears in it,
    Through my soul is ringing,
    23 lines
  • Life's Eden.
    'Tis in sooth life's Eden,
    We within it;
    27 lines
  • At Camelot.
    Her maiden eyes were redolent of love,
    Warm-bosomed as she breathed the passioned air
    13 lines
  • The Passion Of Love's Power.
    Touch me, from out your breast of love,
    With such white hands that be
    7 lines
  • Post Mortem.
    When I have passed the bourne of ear and eye,
    And thou my whereabouts no more canst tell;
    13 lines
  • At The Last.
    The sky grows white with the moon,
    And the sea yearns up to the night
    47 lines
  • The Hamadryad.
    Last night I was like one who prayed
    Beneath a mystic tree
    53 lines
  • A Song Of The Sea.
    Here within the half-light 'tween the night and day
    Upon the sands I lie, with thoughts that idly stirr'd
    11 lines
  • Autumn.
    I in the autumn of my days
    Stand by a place of tears,
    16 lines
  • In The Grass.
    'Tis as if I saw it all — sat now in the grass, and heard
    The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird;
    23 lines
  • The Hill.
    The holy lamps of Evening shine
    Sheer in the West — the air is still —
    15 lines
  • God's Rest.
    I saw God in a dream go by,
    As if He trod the phantom air
    23 lines
  • By The Sea.
    The heat is on the sea, and Noon
    Has hushed the sounds upon the shore;
    23 lines
  • Ever And Only.
    Be with me ever and only,
    No other in thought with you;
    7 lines
  • Night-Bound.
    Comes the night that brings me rest,
    Comes the dark that folds me in
    19 lines
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