To roam the gulf, nor any wild and wandering sphinx:—

Even thus, amid the waste of all fair things that were,

Of high marmoreal dreams immense and overthrown,

I wait forever, and about my face is blown

The sand of crumbling cenotaph and sepulcher.


THE REFUGE OF BEAUTY

From regions of the sun’s half-dreamt decay,

All day the cruel rain strikes darkly down;

And from the night thy fatal stars shall frown—