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The Deserted Garden
2023-12-06I MIND me in the days departed How often underneath the sun With childish bounds I used to run To a garden long deserted. The beds and walks were vani...
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A Musical Instrument
2023-12-06WHAT was he doing the great god Pan Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat And ...
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The Miller's Daughter
2023-12-06IT is the miller's daughter And she is grown so dear so dear That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear: For hid in ringlets day and night...
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Song of the Lotos-Eaters
2023-12-06THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite i...
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O that 'twere possible
2023-12-06O THAT 'twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again! A shadow flits before me Not thou but like ...
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The Old Huntsman
2023-12-06I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad deal all round; and dear enough It c...
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The Two Men
2023-12-06THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped their thoughts by common ...
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Nimrod in September
2023-12-06WHEN half the drowsy world‘s a-bed And misty morning rises red With jollity of horn and lusty cheer Young Nimrod urges on his dwindling rout; Al...
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The Death of the Flowers
2023-12-06THE MELANCHOLY days have come the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere; Heaped in the hollows of the grove ...
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Bereavement
2023-12-06How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner As he bends in still grief o'er the hallowed bier, As enanguished he turns from the laugh of the sc...