THE UNFORGOTTEN I

IN dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand

As heretofore:

The unremembered tokens in your hand
Avail no more.

No more the morning glow, no more the grace,
Enshrines, endears.

Cold beats the light of time upon your face
And shows your tears.

He came, he went. Perchance you wept a while And then forgot.

Ah me! but he that left you with a smile

Forgets you not.

HE rested by the Broken Brook

She drank
SH

She drank of Weary Well,

She moved beyond my lingering look,

Ah, whither none can tell!

She came, she went. In other lands, Perchance in fairer skies,

Her hands shall cling with other hands, Her eyes to other eyes.

She vanished. In the sounding town,

Will she remember too?

Will she recall the eyes of brown
As I recall the blue?

THE

HE infinite shining heavens Rose and I saw in the night Uncountable angel stars

Showering sorrow and light.

I saw them distant as heaven,

Dumb and shining and dead, And the idle stars of the night Were dearer to me than bread.

Night after night in my sorrow
The stars stood over the sea,

Till lo! I looked in the dusk

And a star had come down to me.

VII

MADRIGAL

LAIN as the glistering planets shine

PLAIN as the glistering plaed the skies,

Her love appeared, appealed for mine
And wantoned in her eyes.

Clear as the shining tapers burned
On Cytherea's shrine,

Those brimming, lustrous beauties turned,
And called and conquered mine.

The beacon-lamp that Hero lit

No fairer shone on sea,

No plainlier summoned will and wit,
Than hers encouraged me.

I thrilled to feel her influence near,
I struck my flag at sight.
Her starry silence smote my ear
Like sudden drums at night.

I ran as, at the cannon's roar,
The troops the ramparts man-

As in the holy house of yore
The willing Eli ran.

MADRIGAL

Here, lady, lo! that servant stands
You picked from passing men,

And should you need nor heart nor hands
He bows and goes again.