• How small a tooth hath mined the season’s heart!
    How cold a touch hath set the wood on fire,
    Until it blazes like a costly pyre
    Built for some Ganges emperor, old and swart,
    Soul-sped on clouds of incense! Whose the art
    That webs the streams, each morn, with silver wire,
    Delicate as the tension of a lyre,—
    Whose falchion pries the...

  • How small a tooth hath mined the season’s heart!
    How cold a touch hath set the wood on fire,
    Until it blazes like a costly pyre
    Built for some Ganges emperor, old and swart,
    Soul-sped on clouds of incense! Whose the art
    That webs the streams, each morn, with silver wire,
    Delicate as the tension of a lyre,—
    Whose falchion pries the...