• All ye who have gained the haven of safe days,
      And rest at ease, your wanderings being done,
      Except the last, inevitable one,
    Be well content, I say, and hear men’s praise:
    Yet in the quiet of your sheltered bays,—
      Bland waters shining in an equal sun,—
      Forget not that the awful storm-tides run
    In far, unsheltered, and tempestuous...

  • You've seen Balloons set — Haven't You?

    So stately they ascend —

    It is as Swans — discarded You,

    For Duties Diamond —


    Their Liquid Feet go softly out

    Upon a Sea of Blonde —

    They spurn the Air, as t'were too mean

    For Creatures so renowned —


    Their Ribbons just beyond the...