Elfland (Hawaii)

O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear,     And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar     The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. -Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), The Splendor Falls

Kiss in the Night (New Orleans)

"Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again!         Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live!     And in my heartless breast and burning brain         That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive,         With food of saddest memory kept alive,     Now though art dead, as if it were a part         Of thee, my Adonais! I would give     All that I am, to be as though now art:-- But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Lost Youth

Often I think of the beautiful town     That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town,     And my youth comes back to me.         And a verse of a Lapland song         Is haunting my memory still:     "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), My Lost Youth

Gate (San Francisco)

here I opened wide the door;-- Darkness there, and nothing more. -Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Raven

Veiled Destinies (San Francisco)

And others came. Desires and Adorations;     Wingèd Persuasions, and veiled Destinies; -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais

Gate (San Francisco)

It lies in Heaven, across the flood     Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night     With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth     Spins like a fretful midge. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), The Blessed Damozel