Lord of
Lord of
creed hands human loveliness perfect poetic strong word
And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.
bosom moral within
And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?
adam claims gardener smile smiles
The gardener Adam and his wife/ Smile at the claims of long descent.
arch experience fades margin move whose
All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move
among days round strange
The days darken round me and the years,/ Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
charm flowering lonely
All the charm of all the Muses/ often flowering in a lonely word.
british head stare
And curving a contumelious,Gorgonized me from head to foot,With a stony British stare
lawless myriad science single wilderness
The lawless science of the law, that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances
dealer fool fools-and-foolishness guard hour jealous speech thoughts words
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
hope new-year's smiles threshold
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
came english-poet hands reach
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
beyond late order purpose sail seek sitting until western
Come, my friends,'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.
late seek
Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world.
black flown
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown