1. English

  • Whatever it is — she has tried it —

    Whatever it is — she has tried it —

    Awful Father of Love —

    Is not Ours the chastising —

    Do not chastise the Dove —


    Not for Ourselves, petition —

    Nothing is left to pray —

    When a subject is finished —

    Words are handed away —


    Only lest she be lonely

    In thy...

  • When a Lover is a Beggar

    When a Lover is a Beggar

    Abject is his Knee —

    When a Lover is an Owner

    Different is he —


    What he begged is then the Beggar —

    Oh disparity —

    Bread of Heaven resents bestowal

    Like an obloquy —

  • When a Man has Married a Wife



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    When a Man has Married a Wife

    he finds out whether

    Her knees & elbows are only

    glued together

  • When Etna basks and purrs

    When Etna basks and purrs

    Naples is more afraid

    Than when she show her Garnet Tooth —

    Security is loud —

  • When I hoped I feared —

    When I hoped I feared —

    Since I hoped I dared

    Everywhere alone

    As a Church remain —

    Spectre cannot harm —

    Serpent cannot charm —

    He deposes Doom

    Who hath suffered him —

  • When I hoped, I recollect

    When I hoped, I recollect

    Just the place I stood —

    At a Window facing West —

    Roughest Air — was good —


    Not a Sleet could bite me —

    Not a frost could cool —

    Hope it was that kept me warm —

    Not Merino shawl —


    When I feared — I recollect

    Just the Day it was —...

  • When I was small, a Woman died —

    When I was small, a Woman died —

    Today — her Only Boy

    Went up from the Potomac —

    His face all Victory


    To look at her — How slowly

    The Seasons must have turned

    Till Bullets clipt an Angle

    And He passed quickly round —


    If pride shall be in Paradise —

    Ourself...

  • When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,

    When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,

    When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road,

    When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee —

    Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!

  • When Klopstock England defied

    If Blake could do this when he rose up from shite

    What might he not do if he sat down to write[4]

  • When Memory is full

    When Memory is full

    Put on the perfect Lid —

    This Morning's finest syllable

    Presumptuous Evening said —