Let us rest ourselves a bit!
Worry?-- wave your hand to it --
Kiss your finger-tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
...
I come upon it suddenly, alone--
A little pathway winding in the weeds
That fringe the roadside; and with dreams my own,
I wander as it leads.
...
_The Child-World--long and long since lost to view--
A Fairy Paradise!--
How always fair it was and fresh and new--
...
O her beautiful eyes! they are as blue as the dew
On the violet's bloom when the morning is new,
...
I dreamed I was a spider;
A big, fat, hungry spider;
A lusty, rusty spider
With a dozen palsied limbs;
...
I crave, dear Lord,
No boundless hoard
Of gold and gear,
Nor jewels fine,
...
I heard the bells at midnight
Ring in the dawning year;
And above the clanging chorus
Of the song, I seemed to hear
...
Who bides his time, and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts a mirthful roundelay,
However poor his fortunes be,--
...
A fantasy that came to me
As wild and wantonly designed
As ever any dream might be
Unraveled from a madman's mind,
...
A goddess, with a siren's grace,--
A sun-haired girl on a craggy place
Above a bay where fish-boats lay
Drifting about like birds of prey.
...