• I Have had playmates, I have had companions,
    In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days;
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
    Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies;
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

    I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
    Closed are her...

  • Power is a familiar growth —

    Not foreign — not to be —

    Beside us like a bland Abyss

    In every company —

    Escape it — there is but a chance —

    When consciousness and clay

    Lean forward for a final glance —

    Disprove that and you may —