"No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed."

"This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am sh…"

"And as I played, a child came thro' the gate, A boy who looked at me without a word, As tho' he saw stretch far behin…"

"Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too swee…"

"We weep before the Blessed Mother's shrine, To think upon her sorrows, but her joys What nun could ever know a tithin…"

"All this grows bitter that was once so sweet, And many mouths must drain the dregs of it. But none will pity me, nor …"

"Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love — But you will not assuage him. He alone Of all the gods will take no …"

"I may not speak till Eros' torch is dim, The god is bitter and will have it so."

"I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea, Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each …"

"But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all, I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall."