14 quotes
I make the whole world answer to my art.
Poems (1893)
With this ambiguous earth
His dealings have been told us. These abide:
The signal to a maid, the human birth,
The lesson, and the young Man crucified.
Poems (1913)
I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
Poems (1893)
My day-mind can endure
Upright, in hope, all it must undergo.
But O, afraid, unsure,
My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
Poems (1923)
I came from nothing; but from where
Come these undying thoughts I bear?
Poems (1893)
This moment's Tiber with his shining eyes
Never saw Rome before.
Poems (1923)
Thou inmost, ultimate
Council of judgment, palace of decrees
Where the high senses hold their spiritual state,
Sued by earth's embassies,
And sign, approve, accept, conceive, create.
Poems (1913)
I am dark but fair,
Black but fair.
Poems (1893)
A poet of one mood in all my lays,
Ranging all life to sing my only love,
Like a west wind across the world I move,
Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild way.
Poems (1893)
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press
And reach in further than you know,
And fills all these, and when you go,
There's loneliness in loneliness.
Poems (1893)
The travelling heart went free
With endless streams; that strife was stopped;
And down a thousand vales I dropped,
I flowed to Italy.
Poems (1913)
Round the blue sea I love the best
The argent foam played, slender, fleet;
I saw—past Wordsworth and the rest—
Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.
Poems (1923)
But in the eternities,
Doubtless we shall compare together, hear
A million alien Gospels, in what guise
He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, the Bear.
Poems (1913)
I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong,
I shun the thought that lurks in all delight—
The thought of thee—and in the blind Heaven's height,
And in the sweetest passage of a song.
Poems (1893)