• She is not fair to outward view,
      As many maidens be;
    Her loveliness I never knew
      Until she smiled on me:
    O, then I saw her eye was bright,—
    A well of love, a spring of light.

    But now her looks are coy and cold;
      To mine they ne’er reply;
    And yet I cease not to behold
      The love-light in her eye:
    Her very...

  • I Leave behind me the elm-shadowed square
    And carven portals of the silent street,
    And wander on with listless, vagrant feet
    Through seaward-leading alleys, till the air
    Smells of the sea, and straightway then the care
    Slips from my heart, and life once more is sweet.
    At the lane’s ending lie the white-winged fleet.
    O restless Fancy,...