«When she, that soul of fire, appears, / O women of the North, among you, / It is a radiant challenge flung you, / Your dull conventions, worldly fears. / She spends herself as, bright and daring, / She rushes on against those bars, / How like a lawless comet flaring / Among the calcula...»
«(Camp on the Euphrates) Lovely youth, when war drums rattie / Be not ravished: seal your ears; / Do not leap into the battle / With the crowd of mountaineers. / Well I know that death will shun you. / And that where the sabers fly / Azrael will look upon you, / Note your beauty, and p...»
«Here's winter. Far from town, what shall we do? I question / The servant bringing in my morning cup of tea: / "How is the weather warm? Not storming? The ground's covered / With freshly fallen snow?" Come, is it best to be / Astride a horse at once, or shall we, until dinner, / See what th...»
«Along the noisy streets I wander, / A church invites me, it may be, / Or with mad youths my time I squander, / And still these thoughts are haunting me: This year will fly, the next will follow / As fast, and all whom you see here / Eternity at last will swallow; / For some the hour is ...»