TO W. E. HENLEY These dying, sound the triumph over death. So is pain cheered, death comforted; the house W XVII HENRY JAMES HO comes to-night? We ope the doors in vain. Who comes? My bursting walls, can you contain The presences that now together throng Your narrow entry, as with flowers and song, Do like unbidden angels enter in. But he, attended by these shining names, Comes (best of all) himself— our welcome James. THE MIRROR SPEAKS WHERE the bells peal far at sea There on palace walls I hung But I heard, though I listened well, Never a beat of the chiming bell. Shone from under shining hair. But the lips moved and nothing said; So awhile I glowed, and then One that sees came passing by. |