Suddenly then my strange companion cried,

My joy was but one day of all the days,And clouds have blotted it and hid the sun.Thou wert so much to me! But soon I knewHow small a part could mine be in thy life,That all a woman may endure or doCounts little to her hero in the strife.I do not blame thee who…

Fair ruined temples which adorn the hill?Who has not sat and listened to the shrillSweet melody of blackbirds, and the roarOf Anio’s voice rebounding from the shore,Nor would have given his very soul to greetSome passing vision of a white nymph’s feet,And waving arms, as the wild chasm’s sprayBeat on his face, for ever answering…

Rebuke it for its niggard ways unblest,And trust to Love to shield you in your needs.Remember in the shade of the new yearsOnly what Love has given. This shall beDaily your dole, a safeguard from your tears,Outwitting change and Time’s inconstancy.–Knock loudly at Love’s door. He is awake.Offer him roses. ‘Tis his month of June.Watch…

By instinct of the eye or natural rule,That naked rocks are fairest, or flowers blowBest in their clefts, or that the world of snowHas other glory than of cold and ice.From our mother’s hand we viewed these things belowSenseless as goats which browse a precipice,Till we were taught to know them. With what tearsI con…

And sought this combat with ungodly Man,And ceaseless still through years that do not ceaseHave warred with Powers and Principalities.My natural soul, e’er yet these strifes began,Was as a sister diligent to pleaseAnd loving all, and most the human clan.God knows it. And he knows how the world’s tearTouched me. And He is witness of…

If they returned to life. Nay, claim thine own,And see how gladly I, thy “thankless heir,”Will yield thee back possession of thy throne.I am not so in love with riches grownThat such can comfort me. Alas, too longThe fields are furrowed and the wheat is sownFor my sole grief that these should do thee wrong.I…