Sonnet to Fanny I cry your mercypitylove!aye, love! Merciful love that tantalizes not, One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, Unmasked, and being seenwithout a blot! O! let me have thee whole,allallbe mine! That shape, that fairness, that sw...
A Dedication to My Wife To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our waking time And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleeping time, the breathing in unison. Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same t...
How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need,...
Sonnet 75 One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. Vayne man, sayd she, that does in vayne assay, A mortall thing so to im...
She Is Not Fair to Outward View She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be, Her loveliness I never knew Until she smil'd on me; Oh, then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light! But now her looks are coy and cold, To mine...
Tears,Idle Tears Tears Tears,Idle Tears Tears,idle tears,I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine desparir Rise in the heart,and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no mor...
The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 指掌嶙峋扣峻岩,...
The Voice Woman much missed, call to me, Call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Cab it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as wh...
Three Shadows I looked and saw your eyes In the shadow of your hair As a traveller sees the stream In the shadow of the wood; And I said, My faint heart sighs Ah me! To linger there, To drink deep and to dream In that sweet solitude. I looked and saw...
I could not prove the the years had feet I could not prove the Years had feet Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done I find my feet have further Goals I smile upon the Aims That felt so ampleYesterday Today'...
If You Were Coming In The Fall If you were coming in the fall, Id brush the summer by with half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until...
Love is cruel, love is sweet Love is cruel, love is sweet, -- Cruel sweet, Lovers sigh till lovers meet, Sigh and meet -- Sigh and meet, and sigh again -- Cruel sweet! O sweetest pain! Love is blind -- but love is sly, Blind and sly. Thoughts are bol...
To Morning O holy virgin! clad in purest white, Unlock heav'n's golden gates, and issue forth; Awake the dawn that sleeps in heaven; let light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning,...
A Wish Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from his clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift t...
Ill be a tree Ill be a tree, if you are its flower, 我愿是一棵树,如果你是那树上的花, Or a flower, if you are the dew---- 或是一朵花,如果你是那花上的晨露, Ill be the dew, if you are the sunbeam, 抑或晨露,如果...