Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of...
Roses red and white,
Every rose is hanging her head,
Silently comes the lady Night,
Only the flowers can hear her tread
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air,
Or waters of the hills that softly flow Gracefully falling down a shining stair
And when the fields and streets are covered white And the wind-wor...
Stanzas from
Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,
Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--Is undeniably
On fleeting footsteps from the land
UE, the wreaths of smoke, like drooping
From the flaming battlements of
Hung suspended; and within his
Hipe, last of Ngatiraukawa's chieftains,
Oh, not for the great departed,
Who formed our country's laws,
And not for the
Who died in freedom's cause,
Through the still air of
Suddenly comes, alone and shrill,
Like the far-off voice of the distant light,
The single piping
I saw her coming through the flowery grass,
Round her swift ankles butterfly and
Blent loud and silent wings ;
I saw her
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
If you were coming in the Fall,
I'd brush the Summer
With half a smile, and half a spurn,
As Housewives do, a Fly
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night;
Not all at once, but gently,—as the
Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees