• “speak! speak! thou fearful guest!
    Who, with thy hollow breast
    Still in rude armor drest,
      Comest to daunt me!
    Wrapt not in Eastern balms,
    But with thy fleshless palms
    Stretched, as if asking alms,
      Why dost thou haunt me?”

    Then from those cavernous eyes
    Pale flashes seemed to rise,
    As when the Northern skies...

  • “SPEAK! 1 speak! thou fearful guest!
    Who, with thy hollow breast
    Still in rude armor drest,
      Comest to daunt me!
    Wrapt not in Eastern balms,
    But with thy fleshless palms
    Stretched, as if asking alms,
      Why dost thou haunt me?”

    Then from those cavernous eyes
    Pale flashes seemed to rise,
    As when the Northern skies...

  • Pour me conduire au Raz, j'avais pris à Trogor
    Un berger chevelu comme un ancien Évhage ;
    Et nous foulions, humant son arome sauvage,
    L'âpre terre kymrique où croît le genêt d'or.

    Le couchant rougissait et nous marchions encor,
    Lorsque le souffle amer me fouetta le visage ;
    Et l'homme, par-delà le morne paysage
    Étendant un long bras, me dit :...