I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands…

The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look…

If all a top physicist knows About the Truth be true, Then, for all the so-and-so’s, Futility and grime, Our common world…

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d…

I. So far as our story approaches the end, Which do you pity the most of us three? – My friend, or…

You’ll love me yet! – and I can tarry Your love’s protracted growing: June reared that bunch of flowers you carry From…

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal…

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song….

Canto the First (excerpts) 65 Alfonso was the name of Julia’s lord, A man well looking for his years, and who Was…

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and…

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened…