Tiber, Nile, And Thames THE head and hands of murdered Cicero, Above his seat high in the Forum hung, Drew jeers and …

The House Of Life 97. A Superscription Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call’d No-more, Too-late, Farewell; …

Sonnets The Choice I Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die. Surely the earth, that’s wise being very old, Needs not …

Sonnet Xliii Love And Hope Bless love and hope. Full many a withered year Whirled past us, eddying to its chill doomsday; …

Sonnet Lxxix The Monochord Is it this sky’s vast vault or ocean’s sound That is Life’s self and draws my life from …

Returning To Brussels Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep, I passed a little consecrated shrine, Where, among simple pictures ranged …

Lxxiii The Choice, Iii Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die Outstretch’d in the sun’s warmth upon the shore, Thou say’st: …

For Our Lady Of The Rocks By Leonardo Da Vinci Mother, is this the darkness of the end, The Shadow of Death? …

At The Sun-Rise In 1848 God said, Let there be light; and there was light. Then heard we sounds as though the …

Xli Through Death To Love Like labour-laden moonclouds faint to flee From winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,– Like multiform circumfluence manifold …

The Stream’s Secret What thing unto mine ear Wouldst thou convey,–what secret thing, O wandering water ever whispering? Surely thy speech shall …

The Day-Dream THE thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore Still bear young leaflets half the summer through; From when the robin ‘gainst …

Sonnet Xxxi Her Gifts High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal Some wood-born wonder’s sweet simplicity; A glance like water brimming …

Sonnet Xcvi Life The Beloved As thy friend’s face, with shadow of soul o’erspread, Somewhile unto thy sight perchance hath been Ghastly …

Sonnet Lxi The Song-Throe By thine own tears thy song must tears beget, O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast none Except thy …

Parody Of “uncle Ned” DERE was an old nigger, and him name was Uncle Tom, And him tale was rather slow; Me …

Last Love [canzone] Love hath a chamber all of imagery; And there is one dim nook, A little storied web wherein my …

English May WOULD God your health were as this month of May Should be, were this not England,—and your face Abroad, to …

An Altar-Flame EVEN as when utter summer makes the grain Bow heavily along through the whole land It seems to me whatever …

Woodspurge The wind flapped loose, the wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill: I had walk’d on at the …

The Lady’s Lament Never happy any more! Aye, turn the saying o’er and o’er, It says but what it said before, And …

Stratton Water “O HAVE you seen the Stratton flood That’s great with rain to-day? It runs beneath your wall, Lord Sands, Full …

Sonnet Xviii Genius In Beauty Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call Of Homer’s or of Dante’s heart sublime,— Not Michael’s …

Sonnet Lxxxvii Death’s Songsters When first that horse, within whose populous womb The birth was death, o’ershadowed Troy with fate, Her elders, …

Sonnet Ci The One Hope When vain desire at last and vain regret Go hand in hand to death, and all is …

On Browning’s Sordello “SORDELLO’S story,” the Sphinx yawned and said, “Who would has heard.” Is that enough? Who could, ‘Twere not amiss …

Height In Depth HE turned his face apart, and gave a sigh And a strange whimper—such a pitiful thing As haunts the …

Czar Alexander The Second FROM him did forty million serfs, endow’d Each with six feet of death-due soil, receive Rich freeborn lifelong …

A New-Year’s Burden ALONG the grass sweet airs are blown Our way this day in Spring. Of all the songs that we …

To Thomas Woolner First Snow, February WOOLNER, to-night it snows for the first time. Our feet know well the path where in …

The House Of Life 73. The Choice, Iii Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die Outstretch’d in the sun’s warmth upon …

Sonnets Old And New Art I. ST. LUKE THE PAINTER Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends …

Sonnet Xli Through Death To Love Like labour-laden moonclouds faint to flee From winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,— Like multiform circumfluence …

Sonnet Lxx The Hill Summit This feast-day of the sun, his altar there In the broad west has blazed for vesper-song; And …

Raleigh’s Cell In The Tower HERE writ was the World’s History by his hand Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his …

Lxvi The Heart Of The Night From child to youth; from youth to arduous man; From lethargy to fever of the heart; …

For I A REMOTE sky, prolonged to the sea’s brim: One rock-point standing buffeted alone, Vexed at its base with a foul …

At The Station Of The Versailles Railway I WAITED for the train unto Versailles. I hung with bonnes and gamins on the …

Xix Lilent Noon Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,– The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile …

The Song Of The Bower SAY, is it day, is it dusk in thy bower, Thou whom I long for, who longest …

The Cloud Confines The day is dark and the night To him that would search their heart; No lips of cloud that …

Sonnet Xxx Last Fire Love,through your spirit and mine what summer eve Now glows with glory of all things possess’d, Since this …

Sonnet Xcv The Vase Of Life Around the vase of Life at your slow pace He has not crept, but turned it …

Sonnet Lv Stillborn Love The hour which might have been yet might not be, Which man’s and woman’s heart conceived and bore …

Pandora (For A Picture) WHAT of the end, Pandora? Was it thine, The deed that set these fiery pinions free? Ah! wherefore …

L’envoi Brussels, Hotel Du Midi IT’S copied out at last: very poor stuff Writ in the cold, with pauses of the cramp. …

Eden Bower It was Lilith the wife of Adam: (Sing Eden Bower!) Not a drop of her blood was human, But she …

Almost Over YOU say I should not think upon her now: But then I have stood beside her listening, And watched her …

Venus Verticordia (For A Picture) SHE hath the apple in her hand for thee, Yet almost in her heart would hold it …

The Kiss What smouldering senses in death’s sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissitude Can rob this body of honour, or denude …

St. Wagner’s Eve THE hop—shop is shut up: the night doth wear. Here, early, Collinson this evening fell “Into the gulfs of …

Sonnet Xvii Beauty’s Pageant What dawn-pulse at the heart of heaven, or last Incarnate flower of culminating day,— What marshalled marvels on …

Sonnet Lxxxvi Lost Days The lost days of my life until to-day, What were they, could I see them on the street …

Song And Music O leave your hand where it lies cool Upon the eyes whose lids are hot: Its rosy shade is …

On A Handful Of French Money These coins that jostle on my hand do own No single image: each name here and …

God’s Graal The ark of the Lord of Hosts Whose name is called by the name of Him Who dwelleth between the …

Chimes I. HONEY-FLOWERS to the honey-comb, And the honey-bee’s from home. A honey-comb and a honey-flower, And the bee shall have his …

A Match With The Moon WEARY already, weary miles to-night I walked for bed: and so, to get some ease, I dogged …

Three Shadows I LOOKED and saw your eyes In the shadow of your hair, As a traveller sees the stream In the …

The House Of Life 72. The Choice, Ii Watch thou and fear; to-morrow thou shalt die. Or art thou sure thou shalt …