A Serpent-Face
His face was like a snake's -- wrinkled and loose
And withered--
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Death In Life
My head is heavy, my limbs are weary,
And it is not life that makes me move.
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Rome And Nature
Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.
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May The Limner
When May is painting with her colours gay
The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...
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Life Rounded With Sleep
The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
We begin in what we end.
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Beauty's Halo
Thy beauty hangs around thee like
Splendour around the moon--
Thy voice, as silver bells that strike
Upon...
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The Rude Wind Is Singing
The rude wind is singing
The dirge of the music dead;
The cold worms are clinging
Where kisses were lately fed.
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The Death Knell Is Ringing
The death knell is ringing
The raven is singing
The earth worm is creeping
The mourners are weeping
Ding dong, bell--
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Another Fragment to Music
No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love.'
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.
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Fragment: Omens
Hark! the owlet flaps his wings
In the pathless dell beneath;
Hark! 'tis the night-raven sings
Tidings of approaching death.
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