I only saw her as she pass'd —
A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes
Lay all the loves of Paradise....
You shall not know her — she who sat
Unconscious in my heart all time
I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme,
And loved and did not blush thereat.


IV, p. 25. - The Ship in the Desert (1875)


I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise.... You shall not know her — she who sat...

I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise.... You shall not know her — she who sat...

I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise.... You shall not know her — she who sat...

I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise.... You shall not know her — she who sat...