POSIES
Reading edition
—Is this ... the posy of a ring?—Hamlet.
I FRIENDSHIP
I were not worth you, could I long for you; But should you come, you would find me ready. The lamp is lighted, the flame is steady: Over the strait I toss this song for you!
II ROSE-RENT
Life! lordly giver and gay! I, for this manor of Time, Lightly and lovingly pay Rent with the rose of a rhyme.
III DESIRE OF FAME
O unapproachable glories of the night! You type not my desire: enough for me The vanished meteor’s immortality, Brief memory of a moment touched with light.