If I have since done evil in my life,

Thou, methinks, shalt firstly beA blue flower with nodding bellsIn the hollow of a tree.When the wind blows wantonly,Thou shalt ever shake thy headAt the idle tale he tells.But at evening from the clover,When the world is all abed,And the noisy day is over,And the birds have gone to rest,In the darkness will I hoverTill…

Of birds that pipe and singAnd boyhood’s melancholy!I would not grudge the laughter,The tears that followed after.Oh for a day of youth,A day of strength and passion,Of words that told the truthAnd deeds the truth would fashion!I would not leave untastedOne glory while it lasted.Oh for a day of days,A day with you and pleasure,Of…

Of the Soul thou seekest shield,Makest prayer the old mis–chanceOf your birth–bond be repealed,Since, sayest thou, the Soul would wieldSovereign power and looks askanceAt her partner in life’s dance.Tell me, Soul, why claimest thou,Of what right, this sovereignty?Wherefore dost thou cloud thy brow,This thy partner standing nigh?Scorn is written in thine eyeWatching him. Speak plain…

Of their futurity to them unfurledHas dared to check the mirth-compelling shout.The lion roars his solemn thunder outTo the sleeping woods. The eagle screams her cry.Even the lark must strain a serious throatTo hurl his blest defiance at the sky.Fear, anger, jealousy, have found a voice.Love’s pain or rapture the brute bosoms swell.Nature has symbols…

Love rides disguised. He fears a counterplotFor his own plot of joy in heathendom.Restrained he goes; a single rose–red plumeIs all his badge. No blazon hath he wrought,Device nor sign; his motto “sum qui sum.”Silent is he of Court and Camelot.–Be wise, sweetheart, nor tempt time to mischance.Love at his own hour shall his whole…

He came to die beside the lake.The golden trout leaped up to view,The moorfowl clapped his wings and crew,The swallow brushed him as she flew.He looked upon the glorious sun,His blood dropped slowly on the stone,He loved the life so nearly won,And then he died. The ravens foundA carcase couched upon the ground,They said their…