Francis William Bourdillon Love Poems
- 1. Excelsior
If one should strive to reach a star,
He would not build a ladder high,
Seek foot by foot to climb so far,
And step by step ascend the sky;
... - 2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
... - 3. The Home Of My Heart
Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
... - 4. The Regions Of Love
Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps
Leagues from the light away?
Who knows the heights, where myriad lights
Fill heaven with endless day?
... - 5. Eurydice
HE came to call me back from death
To the bright world above.
I hear him yet with trembling breath
Low calling, รข??O sweet love!
... - 6. Night
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
... - 7. Sonnet I
Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
With whatso man she set her love upon;
... - 8. Sonnet Ii
As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
By billows fretted and by rocks confined,
So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.
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