Poems

Tears There are tears that fall in grief and sadness; Slow and mournfully the cheek they stain, Every drop a sob, a lamentation, In its dew […]

I Am The Wind I am the wind that wavers, You are the certain land; I am the shadow that passes Over the sand. I am […]

Norah I knew his house by the poplar-trees, Green and silvery in the breeze; “A heaven-high hedge,” were the words he said, “And holly-hocks, pink and […]

The Tragedienne A storm is riding on the tide; Grey is the day and grey the tide, Far-off the sea-gulls wheel and cry– A storm draws […]

The Wanderer The ships are lying in the bay, The gulls are swinging round their spars; My soul as eagerly as they Desires the margin of […]

Books Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That […]

Fortune Dame Fortune’s jade with a fanciful horn Of silver ambitions she warns of the flame; With pearls for the princes and tears night and morn […]

Girl-Gladness It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills, And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now, The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills, Will ring […]

Memory Late, late last night, when the whole world slept, Along to the garden of dreams I crept. And I pulled the bell of an old, […]

The Fairie’s Fair Who’s that dancing on the moonlight air, Heel tapping, Toe-heel rapping? Oberon opening the fairies’ fair To jig away sorrow on the grave […]