When Fate was gentle to me for a too-brief hour.

There is my spirit’s home and my soul’s abode,

The rest are only inns on the traveller’s road.

From Behind the Lattice

I see your red-gold hair and know

How white the hidden skin must be,

Though sun-kissed face and fingers show

The fervour of the noon-day glow,

The keenness of the sea.

My longing fancies ebb and flow,