O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires;... By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large then they; By all thy brim-fill'd Bowls of fierce desire, By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and seal'd thee his;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Sestos, Hero dwelt; Hero the faire, Whom young Apollo, courted for her haire,... And offred as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky--... So this winged hour is dropped to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The flies swarmed on the putrid vulva, then A black tumbling rout would seethe... Of maggots, thick like a torrent in a glen....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, many a day have I made good ale in the glen, That came not of stream, or malt, like the brewing of men;... My bed was the ground, my roof the greenwood above, And the wealth that I sought, one far kind glance from my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And each of the huge white creatures was huger than fourscore men; The tops of their ears were feathered, their hands were th...e claws of birds, And, shaking the plumes of the grasses and the leaves of the mural glen, The breathing came from those bodies, long warless, grown whiter than curds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »