• See the chariot at hand here of Love,
    Wherein my lady rideth!
    Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
    And well the car Love guideth.
    As she goes, all hearts do duty
    Unto her beauty;
    And enamour'd, do wish, so they might
    But enjoy such a sight,
    That they still were to run by her side,
    Through swords, through seas, whither she would...

  • Remember me when I am gone away,
    Gone far away into the silent land;
    When you can no more hold me by the hand,
    Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
    Remember me when no more day by day
    You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
    Only remember me; you understand
    It will be late to counsel then or pray.
    Yet...

  • Come to me in the silence of the night;
    Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
    Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
    As sunlight on a stream;
    Come back in tears,
    O memory of hope, love of finished years.

    O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet,
    Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
    Where souls brim-...

  • Come live with me and be my love,
    And we will all the pleasures prove,
    That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
    Woods or steepy mountains yields.

    And we will sit upon the rocks,
    Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
    By shallow rivers, to whose falls
    Melodious birds sing madrigals.

    And I will make thee beds of roses,
    And a thousand fragrant...

  • It lies not in our power to love or hate,
    For will in us is overruled by fate.
    When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
    We wish that one should love, the other win;
    And one especially do we affect
    Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
    The reason no man knows, let it suffice,
    What we behold is censured by our eyes.
    Where both deliberate, the...

  • The sweetest notes among the human heart-strings are dull with rust;
    The sweetest chords, adjusted by the angels, are clogged with dust;
    We pipe and pipe again our dreary music upon the self-same strains,
    While sounds of crime, and fear, and desolation, come back in sad refrains.

    On through the world we go, an army marching with listening ears,
    Each longing,...

  • I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore
    Slight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:
    And round him ladies thronged in warm pursuit,
    Fingered and lipped and proffered the strange store.
    And from one hand the petal and the core
    Savoured of sleep; and cluster and curled shoot
    Seemed from another hand like shame's salute,
    Gifts that I felt my...

  • The blessed damozel leaned out
           From the gold bar of Heaven;
    Her eyes were deeper than the depth
           Of waters stilled at even;
    She had three lilies in her hand,
           And the stars in her hair were seven.
    Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
           No wrought flowers did adorn,
    But a white rose of Mary's gift,...

  • Take this kiss upon the brow!
    And, in parting from you now,
    Thus much let me avow:
    You are not wrong who deem
    That my days have been a dream;
    Yet if hope has flown away
    In a night, or in a day,
    In a vision, or in none,
    Is it therefore the less gone?
    All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.

    I stand amid the roar
    Of a...

  • It was many and many a year ago,
    In a kingdom by the sea,
    That a maiden there lived whom you may know
    By the name of Annabel Lee;
    And this maiden she lived with no other thought
    Than to love and be loved by me.

    I was a child and she was a child,
    In this kingdom by the sea:
    But we loved with a love that was more than love -
    I and my Annabel Lee;...