Coney Island

"If there is any life when death is over, These tawny beaches will know much of me, I shall come back, as constant and as changeful As the unchangin"

"Across the dimly lighted room The violin drew wefts of sound, Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. I watched the musi"

"A half-hour more and you will lean To gather me close in the old sweet way But oh, to the woman over the sea Who will come at the close of day? A"

"Serene descent, as a red leaf's descending When there is neither wind nor noise of rain, But only autum air and the unending Drawing of all things"

"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"