I saw the long line of the vacant shore,
The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,
And the brown rocks left bare on every hand,
As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.
Then heard I, more distinctly than before,
The ocean breathe and its great breast expand,
And hurrying came on the defenceless land
The insurgent waters with tumultuous roar.
All thought and feeling and desire, I said,
Love, laughter, and the exultant joy of song
Have ebbed from me forever! Suddenly o'er me
They swept again from their deep ocean bed,
And in a tumult of delight, and strong
As youth, and beautiful as youth, upbore me.
Masque of Pandora and Other Poems 1875
- The Masque of Pandora - I. The Workshop of Hephaestus
- The Masque of Pandora - II. Olympus
- The Masque of Pandora - III. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus
- The Masque of Pandora - IV. The Air
- The Masque of Pandora - V. The House of Epimetheus
- The Masque of Pandora - VI. In the Garden
- The Masque of Pandora - VII. The House of Epimetheus
- The Masque of Pandora - VIII. In the Garden
- The Hanging of the Crane
- Morituri Salutamus
- Three Friends of Mine
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Keats
- The Galaxy
- The Sound of the Sea
- A Summer Day by the Sea
- The Tides
- A Shadow
- A Nameless Grave
- Sleep
- The Old Bridge at Florence
- Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze