"South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else beside."

"The City of Giraffes!—a People Who live between the earth and skies, Each in his lone religious steeple, Keeping a li…"

"Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive."

"I love to see, when leaves depart, The clear anatomy arrive, Winter, the paragon of art, That kills all forms of life…"

"Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction, Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire."

"The frost stings sweetly with a burning kiss As intimate as love, as cold as death."

"The timeless, surly patience of the serf That moves the nearest to the naked earth And ploughs down palaces, and thro…"

"With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of t…"

"Of all the clever people round me here I most delight in Me – Mine is the only voice I care to hear, And mine the onl…"

"You praise the firm restraint with which they write – I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the cur…"