Passer Mortuus Est, 91
Pastoral, 92
Assault, 93
Travel, 94
Low-Tide, 95
Song of a Second April, 96
The Poet and his Book, 97
Alms, 102
Inland, 104
To a Poet that Died Young, 105
Wraith, 107
Ebb, 109
Elaine, 110
Burial, 111
Mariposa, 112
Doubt no more that Oberon, 113
Lament, 114
Exiled, 115
The Death of Autumn, 117
Ode to Silence, 118
Memorial to D. C., 127
Unnamed Sonnets, i-xii, 134
Wild Swans, 146
SECTION ONE
_Renascence_
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I’d started from
And all I saw from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood.
Over these things I could not see:
These were the things that bounded me;
And I could touch them with my hand,
Almost, I thought, from where I stand.
And all at once things seemed so small
My breath came short, and scarce at all.
But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I’ll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And--sure enough!--I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I ’most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.