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Though you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends...
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O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence, When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer, And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the ...
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Goodbye My Fancy(一)
2023-12-06SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EID?LON YACHT! HEAVE the anchor short! Raise main-sail and jib - steer forth, O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really ...
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Goodbye My Fancy(二)
2023-12-06LINGERING LAST DROPS AND whence and why come you? We know not whence, (was the answer,) We only know that we drift here with the rest, That we linger&...
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Goodbye My Fancy(三)
2023-12-06GOOD-BYE MY FANCY GOOD-BYE1 my fancy - (I had a word to say, But 'tis not quite the time - The best of any man's word or say, Is when its prop...
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Goodbye My Fancy(四)
2023-12-06ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN! ON, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-t...
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Goodbye My Fancy(五)
2023-12-06MY 71ST YEAR AFTER surmounting three-score and ten, With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows, My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life,...
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Goodbye My Fancy(六)
2023-12-06APPARITIONS A VAGUE mist hanging 'round half the pages: (Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul, That all these solid things are indeed but a...
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The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers
2023-12-06The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows Have pulled the Immortal Rose; And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, The...
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He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
2023-12-06Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West, You would come hither, and bend your head, And I would lay my head on your b...