Kyrenaikos

"I loved illustrious cities and the crowds     That eddy through their incandescent nights.     I loved remote horizons with far clouds     Gird"

"I fancied, while you stood conversing there,     Superb, in every attitude a queen,     Her ermine thus Boadicea bare,     So moved amid the mu"

"I     First, London, for its myriads; for its height,     Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite;     But Paris for the smoothness of the"

"Oft as by chance, a little while apart     The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,     Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"