• What shall we do now, Mary being dead,
      Or say or write that shall express the half?
    What can we do but pillow that fair head,
      And let the Spring-time write her epitaph!—

    As it will soon, in snowdrop, violet,
      Wind-flower and columbine and maiden’s tear;
    Each letter of that pretty alphabet,
      That spells in flowers the pageant of...

  • That face which no man ever saw
    And from his memory banished quite,
    With eyes in which are Hamlet ’s awe
    And Cardinal Richelieu’s subtle light
    Looks from this frame. A master’s hand
    Has set the master-player here,
    In the fair temple that he planned
    Not for himself. To us most dear
    This image of him! “It was thus
    He looked...