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Nature centres into balls,And her proud ephemerals,Fast to surface and outside,Scan the profile of the sphere;Knew they what that signified,A new genesis were here. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout natu...

Go, speed the stars of ThoughtOn to their shining goals; —The sower scatters broad his seed,The wheat thou strew’st be souls. Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables, positively to that which stands belo...

Give to barrows, trays, and pansGrace and glimmer of romance;Bring the moonlight into noonHid in gleaming piles of stone;On the city’s paved streetPlant gardens lined with lilac sweet;Let spouting fountains cool the air,Singing in the sun-baked square;Let st...

A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their way,And rived the dark with private ray:They overleapt the horizon’s edge,Searched with Apollo’s privilege;Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,Saw the dance...

The lords of life, the lords of life,—I saw them pass,In their own guise,Like and unlike,Portly and grim,Use and Surprise,Surface and Dream,Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,Temperament without a tongue,And the inventor of the gameOmnipresent without name...

The sun set; but set not his hope:Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:Fixed on the enormous galaxy,Deeper and older seemed his eye:And matched his sufferance sublimeThe taciturnity of time.He spoke, and words more soft than rainBrought the Age of Gold again...

“How near to good is what is fair!Which we no sooner see,But with the lines and outward airOur senses taken be. Again yourselves compose,And now put all the aptness onOf Figure, that ProportionOr Color can disclose;That if those silent arts were lost,Design...