The Princess (poem)

“And one said smiling 'Pretty were the sightAnd sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.”

“A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,And sweet as English air could make her, she.”

“As thro' the land at eve we went,And kiss'd again with tears.”

“And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-longSparkle for ever.”

“Sweet and low, sweet and low,While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.”

“O Love! they die in yon rich sky,And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.”

“The splendour falls on castle wallsBlow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,And thinking of the days that are no more.”

“Dear as remembered kisses after death,Oh death in life, the days that are no more!”

“O love, they die in yon rich sky,And grow for ever and for ever.”

“Dear as remember'd kisses after death,O Death in Life, the days that are no more.”

“O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.”

“Man is the hunter; woman is his game:They love us for it, and we ride them down.”

“Man for the field and woman for the hearth:All else confusion.”

“Home they brought her warrior dead:"She must weep or she will die."”

“You wrong yourselves — the woman is so hardUpon the woman.”

“Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd:Ask me no more.”

“Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.”

“Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,And all thy heart lies open unto me.”

“Sweet is every sound,And murmuring of innumerable bees.”

“Like perfect music unto noble words.”

“Happy heHe shall not blind his soul with clay.”

“God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off,Some civic manhood firm against the crowd.”