There, with Homer's ghost all hoary, Not with years, butfadeless glory, Lo!
I will attend you home," and taking her proffered hand, I descended the hill, with the dreadful word still ringing in my ears, and the fadeless vision still glowing in my heart.
Unworn by age's dim decline, The fadeless blooms of youth are thine.
To keep this semblance fresh in bloom, My heart shall be its lasting tomb, And Memory, with embalming care, Shall keep it fresh and fadeless there.
He above each drop of crimson Shadowing--like the laurel leaf That above himself will shadow - Sheds a fadeless look of grief.
Breasts and limbs and lifted eyes, Hair and lips and stretching fingers, Fade away--and fadeless rise.
The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine, Pause but one moment in your brief career, Nor seek for glory in a mortal sphere.
But he found her There, and bound her With his fadeless flowers.
Life is sweeter, And completer, Since he found her, There, and crowned her With hisfadeless flowers.
Her beauty is a fadeless flower, but her eyes hold a history it were hard to read without a clue.
Their memory enshrined, With all a mother's fondness And fadeless truth entwined.
It drew all its brightness and all its beauty from that larger hope, the hope that lighted up the dark Hebrew sky with the auroras of a new and fadeless dawn.
Sometimes I find, in tatters Like a beggar, form as fair As ever gave to Heaven The treasure of a prayer; And words all dim and faded, And obliterate in part, Grow into fadeless meanings That are printed on the heart.
Scotland and Mary are entwined With blooming wreath of fadeless green, And printed on the undying mind; For, oh!
Thou brought’st a charmed and fadeless holiday— Stories and songs of Indian Epic lay— When’er thy eager step the threshold crost, Imagination all its plumes uptost To follow where thy spirit led the way!
Ask of the clouds that drift at noon In fadeless seas of blue, And looking down see skies beneath Of deeper hue.
Each poem is a star that shines Within your crown of light; Each jeweled thought--a fadeless gem That dims the stars of night.
Under the stars in the shadowy eve, Glittering stars of truth; Beautiful sprays of eternal light, Laid on the brow of the dusky night, Blossoms of fadeless youth.
It lays like a big blue liquid gem in its encirclin' settin' of fadeless green and flashing white walls, and crowned by the hantin' dretful beauty of Mount Vesuvius.
And that dream-child in yonder corner, with blue-veined, transparent temples, whose spiritual eyes even now can see that fadeless shore to which bright angels beckon him.
But I was told that flowers of fairest kind Graced what I deemed a desert of the mind, That for these hapless beings man had twined A fadeless wreath to make their sorrows less.
Even woman's pitiful nature forgot its tenderness, and the honour was reserved for the vestal virgin to give the signal for the mortal stroke that crowned the martyr's brow with fadeless amaranth.
The last order he will ever give to them turns out for surrender the men whose reckless bravery has gilded a "Lost Cause" with a romantic halo of fadeless glory.
For us, the autumn glow, the autumn flame, And soon the winter silence shall be ours: Him the eternal spring of fadeless fame Crowns with no mortal flowers.
Himself the Merlin of his magic strain, He bade old glories break in gloom again; And so exempted from oblivious doom, Through him these days shall fadeless break in bloom.
That love thus shoots, and firmly roots In woman's heart, we see; Through smiles and tears in after-years It grows a fadeless tree.
Crown her with a fadeless garland, And with crystal brim the cup.
