All white, all light, all beautiful she stands,

And on old Centaur, at the coverside,Sit changing pleasant greetings one by oneWith friend and neighbour. Half the county’s prideIs here to–day. Squire, parson, peer, bestrideTheir stoutest nags, impatient to be gone.Here, schoolboys on their earliest ponies ride,And village lads on asses, not out–done.But hark! That sounds like music. Ay, by God!He’s off across the…

I would have raised a temple to enthrone youOn some fair pinnacle of cloudless song.If you had touched me then with your dear laughter,As now its echo smites me in my grief,I would have given my soul to you, and afterLived in my love, grown old in my belief.If you had loved me,–oh, you would…

Je colle mes yeux en triste sorteSur ce carré de sombre bois.Je tourne entre mes deux doigtsUne fleur, une petite fleur; qu’importe?Elle était bien bleue autrefois.Ce n’est plus qu’une feuille morte.Pauvre fleur, la douleur t’enlaiditLes pétales mornes et pendues.Tu sens mauvais, tu noircis.Hélas fidèle, que fais–tu?Mourir! C’est vite prendre ton parti!Et moi donc, qui ai…

The secret of my father’s fame and shame,His tragedy and death on that dark hill.You know at least what the world knows or knew,For time has taken half the lookers–on,As it took him, and leaves his followers few,And those that loved him scarce or almost none.To me, his son, there had remained the story,Told and…

The Pleiads have found a nestIn the waves below.Slow, the Hours one by oneIn Midnight’s footsteps creep.Lovers who lie aloneSoon wake to weep.Slow–footed tortoise Hours, will ye not hasten on,Till from his prisonIn the golden EastA new day shall have risen,And the last stars be gone,Like guests belated from a bridal feast?When the long night…

And as I turned with a sigh because I knewThat I alone perhaps of all who wentHomewards that night should bid good–night to none,From a side door thrust open on the streetAnd calling as she passed in petulant toneTo one within who seemed to rouse her heat,“Ah, mauvais plaisant!” ere she slammed it to,Out stepped…