Poet:

Who is it seeks my Pillow Nights —

With plain inspecting face —

"Did you" or "Did you not," to ask —

'Tis "Conscience" — Childhood's Nurse —


With Martial Hand she strokes the Hair

Upon my wincing Head —
...

Poet:

Why, oh why was Kater lifted

From the darkness, where he drifted

All unknown, and raised to honour,

Side by side with Dick O'connor,

In the Council, free from row?

Who is Kater, anyhow?


Did he lend...

Poet:

Who is the East?

The Yellow Man

Who may be Purple if He can

That carries in the Sun.


Who is the West?

The Purple Man

Who may be Yellow if He can

That lets Him out again.

Poet:

Who never lost, are unprepared

A Coronet to find!

Who never thirsted

Flagons, and Cooling Tamarind!


Who never climbed the weary league —

Can such a foot explore

The purple territories

On...

Poet:

Who never wanted — maddest Joy

Remains to him unknown —

The Banquet of Abstemiousness

Defaces that of Wine —


Within its reach, though yet ungrasped

Desire's perfect Goal —

No nearer — lest the Actual...

Poet:

Who occupies this House?

A Stranger I must judge

Since No one know His Circumstance —

'Tis well the name and age


Are writ upon the Door

Or I should fear to pause

Where not so much as Honest Dog...

Poet:

Who saw no Sunrise cannot say

The Countenance 'twould be.

Who guess at seeing, guess at loss

Of the Ability.


The Emigrant of Light, it is

Afflicted for the Day.

The Blindness that beheld and blest —...

Poet:

Who were "the Father and the Son"

We pondered when a child,

And what had they to do with us

And when portentous told


With inference appalling

By Childhood fortified

We thought, at least they are no...

Poet:

Whoever disenchants

A single Human soul

By failure of irreverence

Is guilty of the whole.


As guileless as a Bird

As graphic as a star

Till the suggestion sinister

Things are not what they...

Poet: