OH, for some cup of consummating might,
Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!
A wine of darkness, that with death shall cure
This sickness called existence! Oh to find

Age

© Anacreon

Oft am I by the women told,

Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old!

Pytheas

© Henry Kendall

Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea

Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven wreath for thee?

To the Bramble Flower

© Ebenezer Elliott

Thy fruit full well the schoolboy knows,

Wild bramble of the brake!

The Salt of the Earth

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

IF childhood were not in the world,
But only men and women grown;
No baby-locks in tendrils curled,
No baby-blossoms blown;

Sonnet XV: If That a Loyal Heart

© Samuel Daniel

If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign'd,

If a sweet languish with a chaste desire,

Waking

© Aldous Huxley

Darkness had stretched its colour,

Deep blue across the pane:

Seasons

© Christina Georgina Rossetti

Oh the cheerful Budding-time!

When thorn-hedges turn to green,

A Reading Of Life--With The Huntress

Through the water-eye of night,

Midway between eve and dawn,

The Dead

© Leon Gellert

These there were, who lost their everything.

Gave all! And left the earth a vaster sphere

Near Perigord

© Ezra Pound

I
You'd have men's hearts up from the dust
And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,
Rigkt enough? Then read between the lines of Uc St. Circ,
Solve me the riddle, for you know the tale.

The Departure Of St. Patrick From Scotland

Twice to your son already has the hand of God been shewn,
Restoring him from alien bonds to be once more your own,
And now it is the self--same hand, dear kinsmen, that to--day
Shall take me for the third time from all I love away.

Tardy Spring

Now the North wind ceases,
The warm South-west awakes;
Swift fly the fleeces,
Thick the blossom-flakes.

Western Camps

THREE men stood with their glasses lifted,
Night was around them and flaring lamps:
"Here's to the tried and true and sifted;
Here's to the flotsam tossed and drifted;