• O’er the yellow crocus on the lawn
      Floats a light white butterfly.
    Breezes waft it! See, ’t is gone!
      Duska, little soul, when didst thou die?

  • From “The Vision of Delight”
    BREAK, Fantasy, from thy cave of cloud,
      And spread thy purple wings,
    Now all thy figures are allowed,
      And various shapes of things;
    Create of airy forms a stream,
    It must have blood, and naught of phlegm;
    And though it be a waking dream,
      Yet let it like an odor rise
        To all the senses...