• All things uncomely and broken,
    all things worn-out and old,
    The cry of a child by the roadway,
    the creak of a lumbering cart,
    The heavy steps of the ploughman,
    splashing the wintry mould,
    Are wronging your image that blossoms
    a rose in the deeps of my heart.
    The wrong of unshapely things
    is a wrong too great to be told,
    I hunger to build...

  • Heart, we will forget him!
    You an I, tonight!
    You may forget the warmth he gave,
    I will forget the light.

    When you have done, pray tell me
    That I my thoughts may dim;
    Haste! lest while you're lagging.
    I may remember him!

  • Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
    Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
    Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
    Not to partake thy passion, my humility.