I.--LOVE LIES BLEEDING
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:
Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her:
Love lies bleeding.
Stately shine his purple plumes,exceeding Pride of princes:nor shall maid or lover Find on earth a fairer sign worth heeding.
Yet may love,sore wounded scarce recover Strength and spirit again,with life receding:
Hope and joy,wind-winged,about him hover:
Love lies bleeding.
II.--LOVE IN A MIST
Light love in a mist,by the midsummer moon misguided,Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,Seems vainly to seek for a star whose gleam has derided Light love in a mist.
All day in the sun,when the breezes do all they list,His soft blue raiment of cloudlike blossom abided Unrent and unwithered of winds and of rays that kissed.
Blithe-hearted or sad,as the cloud or the sun subsided,Love smiled in the flower with a meaning whereof none wist Save two that beheld,as a gleam that before them glided,Light love in a mist.
