«Touching three mighty and unending seas, / She lies, invincible, without a peer. / Spreading her cities and her distances / Over the black meridians of the sphere. But in the moment when the last grenade / Lies ready to explode within your palm, / And all the things which on your heart ha...»
«Wait for me and I’ll come back, / But wait with might and main. / Wait throughout the gloom and rack / Of autumn’s yellow rain. / Wait when snowstorms fill the way, / Wait in summer’s heat, / Wait when, false to yesterday, / Others do not wait. / Wait when from afar at last / ...»
«Sweetly I faint / from the still air and dreams, / From long pervasive tedium / and halting song; / I like the cockerels / embroidered on whit...»
«By our black bread, our faithful wife, / With a pallid impotence we are infected... The years were tried with hoof and stone, / With deathless wormwood the waters saturated. / And bitter wormwood taints our lips... / The knife’s not for us to handle, / The pen not ours by inclination, /...»