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2023-12-06THE SEEKERS. NAY, now no God comes hither, In shape that men may see; They fare we know not whither, We know not what they be. Yea, though the sunset ...
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2023-12-06FAIR white bird, what song art thou singing In wintry weather of lands o'er sea? Dear white bird, what way art thou winging, Where no grass grows,...
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2023-12-06THEY HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME. THE weary sails a moment slept, The oars were silent for a space, As past Hesperian shores we swept, That we...
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2023-12-06CIRCE'S ISLE REVISITED. AH, Circe, Circe! in the wood we cried; Ah, Circe, Circe! but no voice replied; No voice from bowers o'ergrown and rui...
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2023-12-06THE LIMIT OF LANDS. BETWEEN the circling ocean sea And the poplars of Persephone There lies a strip of barren sand, Flecked with the sea's last sp...
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2023-12-06COLINETTE. FRANCE your country, as we know; Room enough for guessing yet, What lips now or long ago, Kissed and named you - Colinette. In what fields ...
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2023-12-06A SUNSET OF WATTEAU. LUI. THE silk sail fills, the soft winds wake, Arise and tempt the seas; Our ocean is the Palace lake, Our waves the ripples that...
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2023-12-06A NATIVITY OF SANDRO BOTTICELLI. 'WROUGHT in the troublous times of Italy By Sandro Botticelli,' when for fear Of that last judgment, and last...
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2023-12-06SONGS AND SONNETSTWO HOMES. WHAT does the dim gaze of the dying find To waken dream or memory, seeing you? In your sweet eyes what other eyes are blue...
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2023-12-06SUMMER'S ENDING. THE flags below the shadowy fern Shine like spears between sun and sea, The tide and the summer begin to turn, And ah, for hearts...