Poems

To Manon BRAVE as a falcon and as merciless, With bright eyes watching still the world, thy prey, I saw thee pass in thy lone majesty, […]

To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her I DID not choose thee, dearest. It was Love That made the choice, not I. Mine eyes were […]

To the Same I WOULD I had thy courage, dear, to face This bankruptcy of love, and greet despair With smiling eyes and unconcerned embrace, And […]

With Esther HE who has once been happy is for aye Out of destruction’s reach. His fortune then Holds nothing secret; and Eternity, Which is a […]

Written at Florence O WORLD, in very truth thou art too young; When wilt thou learn to wear the garb of age? World, with thy covering […]

Between The Lines When consciousness came back, he found he lay Between the opposing fires, but could not tell On which hand were his friends; and […]

Breakfast We ate our breakfast lying on our backs, Because the shells were screeching overhead. I bet a rasher to a loaf of bread That Hull […]

Driftwood Black spars of driftwood burn to peacock flames, Sea-emeralds and sea-purples and sea-blues, And all the innumerable ever-changing hues That haunt the changeless deeps but […]

Home So long had I travelled the lonely road, Though, now and again, a wayfairing friend Walked shoulder to shoulder, and lightened the load, I often […]

In War-Time 1 Troopship (s.s. Baltic: Mid-Atlantic: July, 1917) Dark waters into crystalline brilliance break About the keel, as through the moonless night The dark ship […]