Your riches taught me poverty.    Myself a millionnaire    In little wealths, — as girls could boast, —    Till broad as Buenos Ayre,     You drifted your dominions    A different Peru;    And…

Who robbed the woods,    The trusting woods?    The unsuspecting trees    Brought out their burrs and mosses    His fantasy to please.    He scanned their trinkets, curious,    He grasped, he bore away.    What will…

   Who robbed the woods,    The trusting woods?    The unsuspecting trees    Brought out their burrs and mosses    His fantasy to please.    He scanned their trinkets, curious,    He grasped, he bore away.    What will…

  Whether my bark went down at sea,    Whether she met with gales,    Whether to isles enchanted    She bent her docile sails;     By what mystic mooring    She is held to-day,…

Upon the gallows hung a wretch,    Too sullied for the hell    To which the law entitled him.    As nature’s curtain fell    The one who bore him tottered in,    For this…

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar    Until the morning sun,    When one turned smiling to the land.    O God, the other one!     The stray ships passing spied a…

    To fight aloud is very brave,    But gallanter, I know,    Who charge within the bosom,    The cavalry of woe.     Who win, and nations do not see,    Who fall, and…

There’s a certain slant of light,    On winter afternoons,    That oppresses, like the weight    Of cathedral tunes.     Heavenly hurt it gives us;    We can find no scar,    But internal difference    Where…

  The pedigree of honey    Does not concern the bee;    A clover, any time, to him    Is aristocracy.

 The one that could repeat the summer day    Were greater than itself, though he    Minutest of mankind might be.    And who could reproduce the sun,    At period of going…