| Hope that you may understand! |
| What can books of men that wive |
| In a dragon-guarded land, |
| Paintings of the dolphin-drawn |
| Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons |
| Do, but awake a hope to live |
| That had gone |
| With the dragons? |
| I |
| THE WITCH |
| Toil and grow rich, |
| What’s that but to lie |
| With a foul witch |
| And after, drained dry, |
| To be brought |
| To the chamber where |
| Lies one long sought |
| With despair? |
| II |
| THE PEACOCK |
| What’s riches to him |
| That has made a great peacock |
| With the pride of his eye? |
| The wind-beaten, stone- grey, |
| And desolate Three Rock |
| Would nourish his whim. |
| Live he or die |
| Amid wet rocks and heather, |
| His ghost will be gay |
| Adding feather to feather |
| For the pride of his eye. |