Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray

Light winds from over the moorland sink and shiverAnd sigh as if just blown across a grave.And then I pause and listen to this sighing.I look with strange eyes on the well-known stream.I hear wild birth-cries uttered by the dying.I know men waking who appear to dream.Then from the water-lilies slow uprisesThe still vast face…

Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main.The little green leaves would not let me alone in my sleep;Up-breathed from the marshes, a message of range and of sweep,Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting,Came through the lapped leaves sifting, sifting,Came to the gates of sleep.Then my thoughts, in the dark of the dungeon-keepOf the…

We’re all for love,’ the violins said.‘Of what avail the rigorous taleOf bill for coin and box for bale?Grant thee, O Trade! thine uttermost hope:Level red gold with blue sky-slope,And base it deep as devils grope:When all’s done, what hast thou wonOf the only sweet that’s under the sun?Ay, canst thou buy a single sighOf…

Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs, —Emerald twilights, —Virginal shy lights,Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows,When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnadesOf the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods,Of the heavenly woods and glades,That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach withinThe wide sea-marshes of Glynn;…

While breasts are red and wings are boldAnd green trees wave us globes of gold,Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me— Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.Burn, golden globes in leafy sky,My orange-planets: crimson IWill shine and shoot among the spheres(Blithe meteor that no mortal fears)And thrid the heavenly orange-treeWith orbits bright of minstrelsy.If that…

Awaft on a wind-shift, wavered and ranDown the hill-side and sifted along through the bracken and passed that way.Then Nan got a-tremble at nostril; she was the daintiest doe;In the print of her velvet flank on the velvet fernShe reared, and rounded her ears in turn.Then the buck leapt up, and his head as a…