1. ۱Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees,
2. ۲ (If our loves remain)
3. ۳ In an English lane,
4. ۴By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.
5. ۵Hark, those two in the hazel coppice--
6. ۶A boy and a girl, if the good fates please,
7. ۷ Making love, say,--
8. ۸ The happier they!
9. ۹Draw yourself up from the light of the moon.
10. ۱۰And let them pass, as they will too soon,
11. ۱۱ With the beanflower's boon,
12. ۱۲ And the blackbird's tune,
13. ۱۳ And May, and June!
14. ۱۴
15. ۱۵What I love best in all the world
16. ۱۶Is a castle, precipice-encurled,
17. ۱۷In a gash of the wind-grieved Apennine.
18. ۱۸Or look for me, old fellow of mine,
19. ۱۹(If I get my head from out the mouth
20. ۲۰O' the grave, and loose my spirit's bands,
21. ۲۱And come again to the land of lands)--
22. ۲۲In a sea-side house to the farther South,
23. ۲۳Where the baked cicala dies of drouth,
24. ۲۴And one sharp tree--'tis a cypress--stands,
25. ۲۵By the many hundred years red-rusted,
26. ۲۶Bough iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o'ercrusted,
27. ۲۷My sentinel to guard the sands
28. ۲۸To the water's edge. For, what expands
29. ۲۹Before the house, but the great opaque
30. ۳۰Blue breadth of sea without a break?
31. ۳۱While, in the house, forever crumbles
32. ۳۲Some fragment of the frescoed walls,
33. ۳۳From blisters where a scorpion sprawls.
34. ۳۴A girl bare-footed brings, and tumbles
35. ۳۵Down on the pavement, green-flesh melons,
36. ۳۶And says there's news to-day--the king
37. ۳۷Was shot at, touched in the liver-wing,
38. ۳۸Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling:
39. ۳۹--She hopes they have not caught the felons.
40. ۴۰Italy, my Italy!
41. ۴۱Queen Mary's saying serves for me--
42. ۴۲ (When fortune's malice
43. ۴۳ Lost her, Calais)
44. ۴۴Open my heart and you will see
45. ۴۵Graved inside of it, "Italy."
46. ۴۶Such lovers old are I and she:
47. ۴۷So it always was, so shall ever be!