Evening Song LOOK off, dear Love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea, How long they kiss in sight of all the lands. Ah! Longer, longer, we. Now i...

I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful ...

Lamp of Love Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame---is such thy fate, my heart? Ah, death we...

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and...

Sorrow of Separation   It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout The world and gives birth to shapes innumetable In the infinite sky. It is this sorrow of separat...

Let it be forgotten，as a flower is forgotten， Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold. Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend，he will make us old. If...

  Sailing to Byzantium   THAT is no country for old men. The young In one another‘s arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song, The salmon-falls...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life‘s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they be...

THE WHITE BIRDS WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue st...

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea; He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger, Man from his throne has hurled, And...