«I bless a night I sleep in my abode, / I bless a day when to my work I go, / Judgment and mercy of omniscient God, / The good law — and the stony law, My dusty purple, patched in every piece... / My dusty staff, in the eternal glow! / And else, O God, I bless forever — peace / And ...»
«If your soul was born with wings / What does a hut mean or a palace of kings! / What — Genghis Khan, and what — a horde! / I have two foes in the whole world, / They are two twins in one image united: / Hunger of hungry and glut of glutted.»
« As I was leaving Albion's shore, mist-covered, / O'erwhelmed by leaden waves it seemed to sink from view. / Behind the ship a halcyon still hovered / Whose quiet voice gave heart to all our sailor crew. / The slap of waves, the ev'ning sea breeze drowsing, / The same unch...»
«"I had been leaving coast of misty Albion." / How divine they are — this sadness and this height! / I see the dingy waves fall down and rise on, / The dingy firmament... I know that all by hart. I see the youth that leaned upon the high mast's rope, / As beautiful as if he were by fairie...»