A hundred wings are dropt as soft as one All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom And are ye sure the news is true? As, by some tyrant's stern command As due by many titles, I resign As I lay asleep, as I lay asleep 30 341 245 31 Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea. Ask me no more where Jove bestows Ask me why I send you here A slanting ray of evening light As near Porto-Bello lying A steed, a steed of matchless speed Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Come Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace Come up Condemned to Hope's delusive mine Dear Love, let me this evening die Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Die down, O dismal day, and let me live E'en such is time; which takes on trust Fair maid, had I not heard thy baby cries False world, good night, since thou hast brought False world, thou liest; thou canst not lend Fare well man's dark last journey o'er the deep Farewell, too little and too lately known Fear no more the heat o' the sun First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst come Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Fresh clad from heaven in robes of white. Friend faber, cast me a round hollow ball From you have I been absent in the spring Great Monarch of the world, from whose power springs If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song. If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stayed If the base violence of wicked men If thou wilt ease thine heart If to be absent were to be . 23 PAGE In this marble buried lies In this marble casket lies In vain to me the smiling mornings shine I press not to the choir, nor dare I greet I saw where in the shroud did lurk Is this the spot where Rome's eternal foe I stood within the grave's o'er-shadowing vault It is a beauteous evening, calm and free It is not beauty I demand It is not growing like a tree I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking I were unkind unless that I did shed Jerusalem, my happy home 67 54 Joy for the promise of our loftier homes 345 Last night, among his fellow roughs Lay a garland on my hearse Like as the damask rose you see Lady, I bid thee to a sunny dome Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Like as a huntsman after weary chase Like to Diana in her summer weed Little charm of placid mien Look how the flower which lingeringly doth fade |