The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

From all that has touch’d you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly tome, From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surface, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.

Here is a man tallied – he realizes here what he has in him, The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights, To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to, Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys, (170) To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it, To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it, To look up or down n

Allons! we must not stop here, However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here, However shelter’d this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here, However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.

I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes, These are the days that must happen to you: You shall not heap up what is call’d riches, You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve, You but arrive at the city to which you were destin’d, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call’d by an irre

To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it, To take the best of the farmer’s farm and the rich man’s elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens, To take to your use out of

Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,

They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted, None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.

Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.