Poems

[I Know the Music] All sounds have been as music to my listening: Pacific lamentations of slow bells, The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening, […]

[I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson] [I saw his round mouth’s crimson deepen as it fell], Like a Sun, in his last deep hour; Watched the […]

[O World of many worlds] O World of many worlds, O life of lives, What centre hast thou? Where am I? O whither is it thy […]

Gibraltar SEVEN weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm Upon the huge Atlantic, and once more We ride into still water and the calm […]

Laughter And Death THERE is no laughter in the natural world Of beast or fish or bird, though no sad doubt Of their futurity to them […]

Song O FLY not, Pleasure, pleasant-hearted Pleasure; Fold me thy wings, I prithee, yet and stay: For my heart no measure Knows, nor other treasure To […]

St. Valentine’s Day TO-DAY, all day, I rode upon the down, With hounds and horsemen, a brave company On this side in its glory lay the […]

The Desolate City DARK to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like […]

The Old Squire I LIKE the hunting of the hare Better than that of the fox; I like the joyous morning air, And the crowing of […]

The Two Highwaymen I LONG have had a quarrel set with Time Because he robb’d me. Every day of life Was wrested from me after bitter […]