Of men he would have raised to light he fell:

Servant here to thy mandates, heed thee among our Achaians,Either the mission hie on or stoutly do fight with the foemen?I, not hither I fared on account of the spear-armed Trojans,Pledged to the combat; they unto me have in nowise a harm done;Never have they, of a truth, come lifting my horses or oxen;Never in…

The voice of great Nature; sublime with her lofty conceptions,Yet earnest and simple as any sweet child of the green lowly vale.

Chafe at an unequal yoke,Not to nightingales give hearing;Better this, the raven’s croak.IIDown the Prado strolled my seigneur,Arm at lordly bow on hip,Fingers trimming his moustachios,Eyes for pirate fellowship.IIIHome sat she that owned him master;Like the flower bent to groundRain-surcharged and sun-forsaken;Heedless of her hair unbound.IVSudden at her feet a loverPalpitating knelt and wooed;Seemed a…

And yet be jealous of another? NoneCommits such folly. Terrible Love, I ween,Has might, even dead, half sighing to upheaveThe lightless seas of selfishness amain:Seas that in a man’s heart have no rainTo fall and still them. Peace can I achieve,By turning to this fountain-source of woe,This woman, who’s to Love as fire to wood?She…

And there look down like mothers’ eyes.But let thy joys be fresh as flowers,That suck the honey of the showers,And bloom alike on huts and towers.So shall thy days be sweet and bright;Solemn and sweet thy starry night,Conscious of love each change of light.The stars will watch the flowers asleep,The flowers will feel the soft…

In the trembling leaves of twilight trees,As if the wind were dreaming on its wings?And have you marked their still degreesOf ebbing melody, like the stringsOf a silver harp swept by a spirit’s handIn some strange glimmering land,‘Mid gushing springs,And glisteningsOf waters and of planets, wild and grand!And have you marked in that still timeThe…