Trembling before some nameless Imminence;

And fellow-guestship with the glutless Worm.


NIGHTMARE

As though a thousand vampires, from the day

Fleeing unseen, oppressed that nightly deep,

The straitening and darkened skies of sleep

Closed on the dreamland dale in which I lay.

Eternal tensions numbed the wings of Time,

While through the unending narrow ways I sought