J’ai tout vu : la luxuriance
M’a couronné dans mes vingt ans ;
Mais je cherche encor la Science
Sous l’arbre aux rameaux irritants.
Des visions du vieil Homère
J’ai peuplé tous les Alhambras.
— Païenne ou biblique chimère,
Vous m’avez brisé dans vos bras !
Pour m’enivrer, je l’ai saisie,
La...
Spirit of song, whose shining wings have borne
Our souls of old to many a clear blue height,
Comes there the day that leaves our world forlorn
Of thy clear singing in the haunted night?
For while from out the western radiance low
Like stars the great dead shining upward go,
Behold, thy wings are poised to join their flight:
Yet follow not...
Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world,
That in chaotic gloom and silence lay,
Till from the throne of Light the sun was hurled;
Then that eternal night was changed to day,
And his effulgent, life-imparting ray,
O'er the wide waste of...
