I went with happy heart (how happy… Behind my camel flocks, Piping all day where the Nile pas… And the white sand begins Among the rocks.

I had a live joy once and pampered… For I had brought her from the ‘g… To lie when nights were cold upon… And sit beside me the long days an… Until her whole soul should be lap…

I thought that I had done with fl… That in the azure of high thought… Had learned to fly on less substan… To a new Heaven, a sublimer goal. I thought that I was wise beneath…

DARK to me is the earth. Dark to…    Where is she that I loved, the… Desolate are the streets. Desolat…    A city taken by storm, where no… Sadly I rose at dawn, undid the l…

What price, child, shall I pay fo… (How large a debt!) the light they… What for your cheeks, so red in th… Your lips, your hands, your maiden… Your fair brows crowned with grave…

TO ONE UNFORGOTTEN You are not false perhaps, as love… Meaning the act,—Alas, that guilt… Nor, maybe, have you bowed at othe… Than the true god’s where first yo…

ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY We might, if you had willed, have… Once only in our lives before the… Of Paradise we stood, one fortuna… And gazed in sudden rapture throug…

Dear royal France! I fix the happ… At forty—seven, because that Chri… There passed through Pau the Duke… Fresh from his nuptials with his… And because I, unwilling, shared…

REMINDING HER OF A PROM… Oh, Juliet, we have quarrelled wi… And fate has struck us. Wherefore… We prayed for liberty, and now too… Find liberty is this, to say ‘good…

I dreamed A dream of you, Not as you seemed When you were late unkind And blind

WRITTEN IN DISTRESS We sometimes sit in darkness. I l… Have sat there, in a shadow as of… My friends and comforters no longe… And they who grudge me wrongfully…

But, when the church was hushed in… And all were gone who might his ze… Or hinder the firm purpose of his… A silent man among the tombs he ca… Stooping to listen if so be some s…

We stayed at Lyons three days, on… In Esther’s world of wonder and r… She, glorious star, each night imm… Playing her Manons to the listeni… I glorious too, but in Love’s fir…

’Tis time, my soul, thou shouldst… What men are these with thee, whos… Make thee thus shrink from them an… They are but as thou art, each mot… A convict in transgression. Here…

GAMBLING AT MONACO A jewelled kingdom set impregnable In gardens green which front the v… A happy fortress shut and guarded… And cradled ever on the mountain’s…