← I awaited his poems with an open mind. 🔊
← "Yes; things of this kind I read here," he answered, indicating the title of his book—"The Poems of Shelley." 🔊
← I hastily asked him how soon his poems were to be published. 🔊
← It suggests something of the quality of the poems—strange growths, natural and wild, yet exquisite," he added, "and many-hued, and full of poisons." 🔊
← Yet even now, if one doesn't try to make any sense at all of the poem, and reads it just for the sound, there is a certain grace of cadence. 🔊
← Now, in the light of what befell, none of his other poems depresses me so much as "Nocturne." 🔊
← Harland paused in the midst of his characteristic stride around the room, threw up his hands toward the ceiling, and groaned aloud: he had often met "that absurd creature" in Paris, and this very morning had received some poems in manuscript from him. 🔊