Poems

I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden Daffodils;Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.…
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“You are here. Oh, you do not run away.You will answer me to the last cry.Curl round me as though you were frightened.Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes.Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle,and even your…
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As late I rambled in the happy fields,What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dewFrom his lush clover covert;—when anewAdventurous knights take up their dinted shields:I saw the…
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For Fanny BrawneThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,Warm breath, light whisper, tender semitone,Bright eyes,…
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To Fanny.I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love!Merciful love that tantalises notOne-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,Unmask'd, and being seen—without a blot!O! let me have thee whole,—all—all—be…
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,A palace and a prison on each hand:I saw from out the wave her structures riseAs from the stroke of the…
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I.She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.II.One shade the…
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“I want you to knowone thing.You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log,everything carries me to you,as…
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I dwell in Possibility–A fairer House than Prose–More numerous of Windows–Superior– for Doors–Of Chambers as the Cedars–Impregnable of Eye–And for an Everlasting RoofThe…
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So, we'll go no more a rovingSo late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,And the moon be still as bright.For the sword outwears its sheath,And the…
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