Fourth Day’s Interview Fifth Day’s Interview POEMS She I love (alas in vain!) Pleasure! why thus desert the heart Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives Ianthe! you are call’d to cross the sea! The gates of fame and of the grave Twenty years hence my eyes may grow Here, ever since you went abroad Tell me not things past all belief Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak Fiesole Idyl Ah what avails the sceptred race With rosy hand a little girl prest down Ternissa! you are fled! Various the roads of life; in one Yes; I write verses now and then On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia Once, and once only, have I seen thy face