Sonnet — To Science Science! meet daughter of old Time thou artWho alterest all things with thy peering eyes!Why prey’st thou thus upon the poet’s heart,Vulture! whose wings are dull...
Silence A Sonnet There are some qualities — some incorporate thingsThat have a double life — life aptly made,The type of that twin entity which springsFrom matter and light, evinced...
Sonnet “Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce,“Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.Through all the flimsy things we see at onceAs easily as through a Naples bonnet —Trash of all...
Song of Triumph Who is king but Epiphanes?Say do you know?Who is God but Epiphanes?Say do you know?There is none but EpiphanesNo — there is none:So tear down the templesAnd...
Serenade So sweet the hour — so calm the time,I feel it more than half a crimeWhen Nature sleeps and stars are mute,To mar the silence ev’n with lute.At rest...
Politian, A Tragedy. Scene: Rome in the 16th century. Characters: Lalage – an orphan ward of Di Broglio. Alessandra – niece of Di Broglio, and betrothed to Castiglione...
Preface 1Romance who loves to nod and singWith drowsy head and folded wingAmong the green leaves as they shakeFar down within some shadowy lakeTo me a painted paroquetHath been — a...
A Pæan I.How shall the burial rite be read?The solemn song be sung?The requiem for the loveliest dead,That ever died so young? II.Her friends are gazing on her,And on her...
O, Tempora! O, Mores! O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinionThat you are changing sadly your dominion —I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,For men have none...
