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  • To A Picture Of Eleonora Duse With The Greek Fire, In "Francesca da Rimini"
    Francesca's life that was a limpid flame
    Agleam against the shimmer of a sword,
    14 lines
  • To A Picture Of Eleonora Duse In "The Dead City" II
    Carved in the silence by the hand of Pain,
    And made more perfect by the gift of Peace,
    14 lines
  • September Midnight
    Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer,
    Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,
    18 lines
  • To A Castillan Song
    We held the book together timidly,
    Whose antique music in an alien tongue
    14 lines
  • Nahant
    BOWED as an elm under the weight of its beauty,
    So earth is bowed, under her weight of splendor,
    12 lines
  • To Eleonora Duse In "The Dead City"
    Were you a Greek when all the world was young,
    Before the weary years that pass and pass,
    14 lines
  • To A Picture Of Eleonora Duse In "The Dead City" I
    Your face is set against a fervent sky,
    Before the thirsty hills that sevenfold
    14 lines
  • The Wind In The Hemlock
    STEELY stars and moon of brass,
    How mockingly you watch me pass!
    34 lines
  • To Sappho II
    Your lines that linger for us down the years,
    Like sparks that tell the glory of a flame,
    14 lines
  • The Blind
    The birds are all a-building,
    They say the world's a-flower,
    20 lines
  • Spring Torrents
    WILL it always be like this until I am dead,
    Every spring must I bear it all again
    8 lines
  • Morning Song
    A DIAMOND of a morning
    Waked me an hour too soon;
    8 lines
  • The Silent Battle
    (In Memory of J. W. T. Jr.)
    HE was a soldier in that fight
    13 lines
  • Song II
    Like some rare queen of old romance
    Who loved the gleam of helm and lance
    21 lines
  • Song I
    You bound strong sandals on my feet,
    You gave me bread and wine,
    9 lines
  • Primavera Mia
    As kings, seeing their lives about to pass,
    Take off the heavy ermine and the crown,
    14 lines
  • The Song For Colin
    I sang a song at dusking time
    Beneath the evening star,
    9 lines
  • In Spring, Santa Barbara
    I HAVE been happy two weeks together,
    My love is coming home to me,
    12 lines
  • Triolets
    Before a lonely shrine
    Of foam-born Aphrodite,
    16 lines
  • Sonnet
    I saw a ship sail forth at evening time;
    Her prow was gilded by the western fire,
    14 lines
  • Song III
    Let it be forgotten as a flower is forgotten,
    Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,
    8 lines
  • Vignettes Overseas
    I. Off Gilbatrar
    BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain,
    101 lines
  • Sappho II
    Oh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep?
    These long Egyptian noons bend down your head
    62 lines
  • Sappho III
    The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep,
    And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea,
    58 lines
  • The Love That Goes A-Begging
    Oh Loves there are that enter in,
    And Loves there are that wait,
    20 lines
  • New Year's Dawn - Broadway
    When the horns wear thin
    And the noise, like a garment outworn,
    25 lines
  • The Inn Of Earth
    I came to the crowded Inn of Earth,
    And called for a cup of wine,
    24 lines
  • Oh You Are Coming
    Oh you are coming, coming, coming,
    How will hungry Time put by the hours till then? --
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Redbirds
    REDBIRDS, redbirds,
    Long and long ago,
    16 lines
  • The Unseen
    DEATH went up the hall
    Unseen by every one,
    12 lines
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