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To my dear Friend, Mrs. Anna Flaxman
2023-12-06This song to the flower of Flaxman's joy, To the blossom of hope for a sweet decoy; Do all that you can, or all that you may, To entice him to Fel...
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Are not the joys of morning sweeter
2023-12-06Are not the joys of morning sweeter Than the joys of night? And are the vigorous joys of youth Ashamèd of the light? Let age and sickness silen...
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The Wild Flower's Song
2023-12-06As I wander'd the forest, The green leaves among, I heard a Wild Flower Singing a song. `I slept in the earth In the silent night, I murmur'd ...
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To Thomas Butts
2023-12-06To my friend Butts I write My first vision of light, On the yellow sands sitting. The sun was emitting His glorious beams From Heaven's high strea...
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Day
2023-12-06The sun arises in the East, Cloth'd in robes of blood and gold; Swords and spears and wrath increas'd All around his bosom roll'd, Crown...
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To Mrs. Butts
2023-12-06Wife of the friend of those I most revere, Receive this tribute from a harp sincere; Go on in virtuous seed- sowing on mould Of human vegetation, and ...
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The Fairy
2023-12-06Come hither, my Sparrows, My little arrows. If a tear or a smile Will a man beguile, If an amorous delay Clouds a sunshiny day, If the step of a foot ...
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The Good are attracted by men's perceptions, And think not for themselves; Till Experience teaches them to catch And to cage the fairies and elves...
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Lafayette
2023-12-06i `Let the brothels of Paris be openèd With many an alluring dance, To awake the physicians thro' the city!' Said the beautiful Queen o...
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Appendix to Rossetti Manuscript
2023-12-06A Fairy leapt upon my knee Singing and dancing merrily; I said, `Thou thing of patches, rings, Pins, necklaces, and such-like things, Disgracer of the...