• From “Astrophel and Stella”
    WITH how sad steps, O Moon! thou climb’st the skies,
    How silently, and with how wan a face!
    What may it be, that even in heavenly place
    That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries?
    Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
    Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case;
    I read it in thy looks; thy languished...

  • How soft a Caterpillar steps —

    I find one on my Hand

    From such a velvet world it comes

    Such plushes at command

    Its soundless travels just arrest

    My slow — terrestrial eye

    Intent upon its own career

    What use has it for me —

  • I know Suspense — it steps so terse

    And turns so weak away —

    Besides — Suspense is neighborly

    When I am riding by —


    Is always at the Window

    Though lately I descry

    And mention to my Horses

    The need is not of me —