extract A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a…

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold….

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither…

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rue, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through…

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to…

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics, Yet here’s a travelled man that knows What he talks about,…

The light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle. But a raving autumn shears Blossom from the summer’s…

Canto the First (excerpts) 65 Alfonso was the name of Julia’s lord, A man well looking for his years, and who Was neither much beloved, nor yet abhorr’d; They lived…

“I’m sorry I done it, Major.” We bandaged the livid face; And led him out, ere the wan sun rose, To die his death of ignorance. The bolt-heads locked to…

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in…