• That which her slender waist confined
    Shall now my joyful temples bind;
    No monarch but would give his crown,
    His arms might do what this hath done.

    It was my heaven’s extremest sphere,
    The pale which held that lovely deer:
    My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
    Did all within this circle move.

    A narrow compass! and yet there...

  • Did the Harebell loose her girdle

    To the lover Bee

    Would the Bee the Harebell hallow

    Much as formerly?


    Did the "Paradise" — persuaded —

    Yield her moat of pearl —

    Would the Eden be an Eden,

    Or the Earl — an Earl?