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Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?
Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For th…
The Two Spirits: An Allegory
The Two Spirits: An Allegory FIRST SPIRIT O thou, who plum'd with strong desire Wouldst float above the earth, beware! A Shadow tracks thy flight of fire-- Night is coming! Brig…
Staffa
Staffa Not Aladdin magian Ever such a work began; Not the wizard of the Dee Ever such a dream could see; Not St. John, in Patmos' Isle, In the passion of his toil, When he saw…
The White Birds
The White Birds I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue…
The Send-off
The Send-off Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath an…
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music…
The Letters
The Letters Still on the tower stood the vane, A black yew gloomed the stagnant air, I peered athwart the chancel pane And saw the altar cold and bare. A clog of lead was round…
To Thomas Moore : Written The Evening Before His Visit To Mr. Leigh Hunt In
To Thomas Moore : Written The Evening Before His Visit To Mr. Leigh Hunt In Horsemonger Lane Gaol, May 19, 1813 Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town, Anacreon, Tom Litt…
Lines On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Lines On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill And thou wert sad yet I was not with thee; And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought that joy and health alone could be Whe…
Legend
Legend THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus began To his surprise: 'I entreat thee to pray That grace to me and my f…
To John Hamilton Reynolds
To John Hamilton Reynolds O that a week could be an age, and we Felt parting and warm meeting every week, Then one poor year a thousand years would be, The flush of welcome eve…
The Penalty
The Penalty Once in life I watched a Star; But I whistled, "Let her go! There are others, fairer far, Which my favouring skies shall show Here I lied, and herein I Stood to pay…
The Engine
The Engine Into the gloom of the deep, dark night, With panting breath and a startled scream; Swift as a bird in sudden flight Darts this creature of steel and steam. Awful da…
To Caroline: When I Hear That You Express An Affection So Warm
To Caroline: When I Hear That You Express An Affection So Warm When I hear that you express an affection so warm, Ne'er think, my beloved, that I do not believe; For your lip w…
Four Winds
Four Winds "Four winds blowing through the sky, You have seen poor maidens die, Tell me then what I shall do That my lover may be true." Said the wind from out the south, "Lay n…
The Ballad Of The Clampherdown
The Ballad Of The "Clampherdown" It was our war-ship ~Clampherdown~ Would sweep the Channel clean, Wherefore she kept her hatches close When the merry Channel chops arose, To sa…
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a fire of turf in th' ancient tower, And havin…
The Little White Hearse
The Little White Hearse Somebody’s baby was buried to-day – The empty white hearse from the grave rumbled back, And the morning somehow seemed less smiling and gay As I paused…
Written Shortly After The Marriage Of Miss Chaworth
Written Shortly After The Marriage Of Miss Chaworth Hills of Annesley, bleak and barren, Where my thoughtless childhood stray'd, How the northern tempests, warring, Howl above…
Lines To A Lady Weeping
Lines To A Lady Weeping Weep, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay; Ah! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's fault away! Weepfor thy tears…
The Metamorphosis Of Plants
The Metamorphosis Of Plants THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any a name dost thou hear…
Epitaph for a Darling Lady
Epitaph for a Darling Lady All her hours were yellow sands, Blown in foolish whorls and tassels; Slipping warmly through her hands; Patted into little castles. Shiny day on sh…
In Drear-Nighted December
In Drear-Nighted December IN drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle t…
Angutivaun Taina
"Angutivaun Taina" Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood, Our furs with the drifted snow, As we come in with the seal--the seal! In from the edge of the floe. Au jana! Aua!…