Lord of
Lord of
dreams fame man men-and-women wakes woman
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
beauty creatures hunt love man ride shining woman
Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
pure spirit thou
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.
begin blown dropping last leaf red roar winds
To-night the winds begin to rise/ And roar from yonder dropping day:/ The last red leaf is whirled away,/ The rooks are blown about the skies.
dividing swift
This way and that dividing the swift mind.
boundless mind thy truth within
This truth within thy mind rehearse,/ That in a boundless universe/ Is boundless better, boundless worse.
fine heart kindness mould rich seed wrong
To do him any wrong was to beget a kindness from him, for his heart was rich - of such fine mould that if you sowed therein the seed of hate, it blossomed charity.
against creed final god indeed law love red tooth trusted
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
feels guinea helps honor hurt
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels
city funeral humming marriage news sound
News from the humming city comes to it/ In sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
absolution forgiveness hate sort sound
Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
fat great huge lord patron thirty
No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,/ A raiser of huge melons and of pine,/ A patron of some thirty charities.
breath death human life truly
No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death
edward fatter
Edward Bull/ The curate; he was fatter than his cure.