Sonnet XXV: Winged Hours
Sonnet XXV: Winged Hours Each hour until we meet is as a bird That wings from far his gradual way along The rustling covert of my […]
READ MORESonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture
Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture Thou lovely and beloved, thou my love; Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes, Even now, as for our love-world’s new […]
READ MORESonnet XXVII: Heart’s Compass
Sonnet XXVII: Heart’s Compass Sometimes thou seem’st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are; A breathless wonder, shadowing forth afar […]
READ MORESonnet XXVIII: Soul-Light
Sonnet XXVIII: Soul-Light What other woman could be loved like you, Or how of you should love possess his fill? After the fulness of all rapture, […]
READ MORESonnet XXX: Last Fire
Sonnet XXX: Last Fire Love,through your spirit and mine what summer eve Now glows with glory of all things possess’d, Since this day’s sun of rapture […]
READ MORESonnet XXXI: Her Gifts
Sonnet XXXI: Her Gifts High grace, the dower of queens; and therewithal Some wood-born wonder’s sweet simplicity; A glance like water brimming with the sky Or […]
READ MORESonnet XXXII: Equal Troth
Sonnet XXXII: Equal Troth Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love; For how should I be loved as I love thee?— I, graceless, joyless, […]
READ MORESonnet XXXIII: Venus Victrix
Sonnet XXXIII: Venus Victrix Could Juno’s self more sovereign presence wear Than thou, ‘mid other ladies throned in grace?— Or Pallas, when thou bend’st with soul-stilled […]
READ MORESonnet XXXIV: The Dark Glass
Sonnet XXXIV: The Dark Glass Not I myself know all my love for thee: How should I reach so far, who cannot weigh To-morrow’s dower by […]
READ MORESonnet XXXIX: Sleepless Dreams
Sonnet XXXIX: Sleepless Dreams Girt in dark growths, yet glimmering with one star, O night desirous as the nights of youth! Why should my heart within […]
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