1   Strange Truth and Beauty are enemies,
2   If they were shadows walking to and fro
3   Like an huge bird, between us and the sun,
4   At the abyss of weakness, folly, sin,
5   In words, of love hid in me out of reach.
6   Death in a rage assaulted once my heart
7   Not pale, as one in sleep or holier death
8   But at the last slow ebb of mortal breath,
9   They float before my soul, the fair designs
10 And times and things, as in that vision, seem
11 Yet in my heart a hint of feeling lies
12 Still may the rosy summer robe your cheek
13 To hear that voice or see those eyes again,
14 Would I not give this mortal life of mine

1 Elizabeth Akers Allen          (1832-1911)     Truth and Beauty
2 Harvey Allen                       (1899-1949)      Dead Men, To a Metaphysical
3 Thomas Lovell Beddoes      (1803-1849),     To Night
4 George Henry Boker            (1823-1890       Sonnets From A Sequence on                                                                 
                                                                        Profane Love  XV 
5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning  (1806-1861)       Sonnet from  the Portuguese X111
6 Giles Flecher                       (1549-1611)       The  Wise, Kind, Virtuous, and Fair                                                                             
                                                                           V11
7John Gray                            (1866-1934)        On a Picture, To Pierre Louys
8 Paul Hamilton Hayne           (1831-1887)        At Last
9 Felicia Dorthea Hemans       (1794-1835)        Design and Performance
10 Leigh Hunt                         (1784-1859)        The Nile
11 Amy Levy                           (1861-1889)        Sonnet
12 Caroline Symmons            (1789-1803         Her Young Friend
13 Catherine M. Fanshawe      (1765-1834)       When Last We Parted
14 Cheryl Sellers                     (1949-****)