So I am sure she 'll not refuse

To visit me.

TO E. H. K.

ON THE RECEIPT OF A FAMILIAR POEM

To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath

From some far forest which I once have known,

The perfume of this flower of verse is blown.

Tho' seemingly soul-blossoms faint to death,

Naught that with joy she bears e'er withereth.

So, tho' the pregnant years have come and flown,