changeless

Also, and that perchance is stronger still,

A wakeful, changeless touchstone in my brain,

Receiving, noting, testing all the while

But oh! more than the changeless southern isles,

When Spring has shed upon the earth her charm,

And be as rays,

Thro' the still altering world, around her changeless head.

Therefore no 'plaint be mine

Even so much life endures unknown, even where,

'Mid change the changeless night environeth,

Lies all that golden hair undimmed in death.

had in return for consciousness

endowed him with a changeless grin

Oh for a poet -- for a beacon bright

To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray;

To spirit back the Muses, long astray,

The sleepless deathless life within thee grasp,--

While myriad faces, like one changeless face,

With woe _not love's_, shall glass thee everywhere

And there swells up in me

Sudden desire for something changeless,

Thrusts of sunless rock