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  • To Will H Low
      Youth now flees on feathered foot
      Faint and fainter sounds the flute,
    32 lines
  • I will make you brooches
      I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
      Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
    13 lines
  • Romance
    I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight
    Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
    13 lines
  • For Richmond's Garden Wall
    WHEN Thomas set this tablet here,
    Time laughed at the vain chanticleer;
    11 lines
  • To Miss Cornish
    THEY tell me, lady, that to-day
    On that unknown Australian strand -
    27 lines
  • To Mrs. Macmarland
    IN Schnee der Alpen - so it runs
    To those divine accords - and here
    36 lines
  • The Clock's Clear Voice Into The Clearer Air
    THE cock's clear voice into the clearer air
    Where westward far I roam,
    25 lines
  • Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse
    THOUGH deep indifference should drowse
    The sluggish life beneath my brows,
    21 lines
  • To Madame Garschine
    WHAT is the face, the fairest face, till Care,
    Till Care the graver - Care with cunning hand,
    5 lines
  • To Marcus
    YOU have been far, and I
    Been farther yet,
    42 lines
  • To Sydney
    NOT thine where marble-still and white
    Old statues share the tempered light
    63 lines
  • Youth and Love
      To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside.
      Passing for ever, he fares; and on either hand,
    10 lines
  • My Wife
      Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
      With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
    16 lines
  • In Maximum
    WOULDST thou be free? I think it not, indeed;
    But if thou wouldst, attend this simple rede:
    12 lines
  • Sonnet II
    So shall this book wax like unto a well,
    Fairy with mirrored flowers about the brim,
    15 lines
  • To Mesdames Zassetsky And Garschine
    THE wind may blaw the lee-gang way
    And aye the lift be mirk an' gray,
    35 lines
  • To Rosabelle
    WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid,
    And in long raiment wondrously arrayed,
    42 lines
  • Duddingstone
    WITH caws and chirrupings, the woods
    In this thin sun rejoice.
    35 lines
  • In Charidemum
    YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung,
    And watched me all the days that I was young;
    15 lines
  • Variant Form Of The Preceding Poem
    COME to me, all ye that labour; I will give your spirits rest;
    Here apart in starry quiet I will give you rest.
    8 lines
  • Men Are Heaven's Piers
    MEN are Heaven's piers; they evermore
    Unwearying bear the skyey floor;
    35 lines
  • You Looked So Tempting In The Pew
    YOU looked so tempting in the pew,
    You looked so sly and calm -
    15 lines
  • I Am Like One That For Long Days Had Sate
    I AM like one that for long days had sate,
    With seaward eyes set keen against the gale,
    30 lines
  • O Dull Cold Northern Sky
    O DULL cold northern sky,
    O brawling sabbath bells,
    30 lines
  • Stout Marches Lead To Certain Ends
    STOUT marches lead to certain ends,
    We seek no Holy Grail, my friends -
    20 lines
  • To Charles Baxter
    OUR Johnie's deid. The mair's the pity!
    He's deid, an' deid o' Aqua-vitae.
    91 lines
  • Hail, Guest, And Enter Freely!
    HAIL, guest, and enter freely! All you see
    Is, for your momentary visit, yours; and we
    5 lines
  • In Lupum
    BEYOND the gates thou gav'st a field to till;
    I have a larger on my window-sill.
    27 lines
  • Loud And Low In The Chimney
    LOUD and low in the chimney
    The squalls suspire;
    19 lines
  • The Celestial Surgeon
    IF I have faltered more or less 
    In my great task of happiness; 
    14 lines
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