Be in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and'not
As transient things are
gaiety of flowers.
...
At the table beyond us
With her little suede slippers off,
With her white-stocking'd feet
Carefully kept from the floor by a napkin,
...
Golden rose the house, in the portal I saw
thee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, a
portent. Life died down in the lamp and flickered,
...
Let some new lying ass,
Who knows not what is or was,
Talk economics,
Pay for his witless noise,
...
For a moment she rested against me
Like a swallow half blown to the wall,
And they talk of Swinburne's women,
...
Fu I
Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill,
Alas, he died of alcohol.
...
Let us build here an exquisite friendship,
The flame, the autumn, and the green rose of love
Fought out their strife here, 'tis a place of wonder;
...
You were praised, my books,
because I had just come from the country;
I was twenty years behind the times
so you found an audience ready.
...
Beautiful, tragical faces—
Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;
And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved,
That are so sodden and drunken,
...