A Place for Zinnias

Ah, Sleep, to me thou com'st not in the guise Of one who brings good gifts to weary men, Balm for bruised hearts and fancies alien To un...

Most tuneful singer, lover tenderest, Most sad, most piteous, and most musical, Thine is the shrine more pilgrim-worn than all Th...

Thou that wast once my loved and loving friend, A friend no more, I had forgot thee quite, Why hast thou come to trouble my delight...

Into the silence of the empty night I went, and took my scorned heart with me, And all the thousand eyes of heaven were bright; B...

I know a green grass path that leaves the field, And like a running river, winds along Into a leafy wood where is no throng Of bi...

There is an isle in an unfurrowed sea That I wot of, whereon the whole year round The apple-blossoms and the rosebuds be In early blooming ;...

I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face All radiant and unshadowed of distress, And as of old, in music measureless, I heard his golden ...

What shall we do, my soul, to please the King? Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance, And hath condemned the honeyed utterance Of silver f...

Here in this isle The summer still lingers, And Autumn's brown fingers So busy the while With the leaves in the north; Are scarcely put ...

Voici venir le temps Now is the hour when, swinging in the breeze, Each flower, like a censer, sheds its sweet. The air is full of scents an...

Vitus came tripping over the grass When all the leaves in the trees were green, Through the green meadows he did pass On the day ...

Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again ! (I heard the birds this morning singing sweet.) Wake up again ! The sky was crystal clear...

To see the moment holds a madrigal, To find some cloistered place, some hermitage For free devices, some deliberate cage Wherein ...

Alas ! I have lost my God, My beautiful God Apollo. Wherever his footsteps trod My feet were wont to follow. But Oh ! it fell o...