Anoche, estando solo y ya medio dormido,
mis sueños de otras épocas se me han aparecido.
Los sueños de esperanzas, de glorias, de alegrías
y de felicidades que nunca han sido mías,
se fueron acercando en lentas procesiones
y de la alcoba oscura poblaron los rincones
hubo un silencio grave en todo el aposento
y en el reloj la péndola detúvose al...
Now all the cloudy shapes that float and lie
Within this magic globe we call the brain
Fold quite away, condense, withdraw, refrain,
And show it tenantless—an empty sky.
Return, O parting visions, pass not by;
Nor leave me vacant still, with strivings vain,
Longing to grasp at your dim garment’s train,
And be drawn on to sleep’s immunity...
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found,
Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep,
Thou, giant Harlequin of Dreams, dost leap
Upon my spirit’s stage. Then Sight and Sound,
Then Space and Time, then Language, Mete and Bound,
And all familiar Forms that firmly keep
Man’s reason in the road, change faces, peep
Betwixt the legs...
Soul unto SOUL GLOOMS DARKLING
DISGUISE upon disguise, and then disguise,
Equivocations at the rose’s heart,
Life’s surest pay a poet’s forgeries,
The gossamer gold coinage of our art.
Why hope for truth? Thy very being slips,
Lost from thee, in thy crowd of masking moods.
Why hope for love? Between quick-kissing lips
Is room and...
O For one hour of youthful joy!
Give back my twentieth spring!
I ’d rather laugh a bright-haired boy
Than reign a gray-beard king!
Off with the spoils of wrinkled age!
Away with learning’s crown!
Tear out life’s wisdom-written page,
And dash its trophies down!
One moment let my life-blood stream
From boyhood’...
Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour —
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple Door
Into the Precinct raw
Possessed before —
Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn —
Sweeter — the Surmising Robins —
Never gladdened Tree —
Than a Solid Dawn — confronting —
Leading to no Day —
