Poems

The Littlle Black-Eyed Rebel A boy drove into the city, his wagon loaded down With food to feed the people of the British-governed town; And the […]

A Likeness In every line a supple beauty — The restless head a little bent — Disgust of pleasure, scorn of duty, The unseeing eyes of […]

Spanish Johnny The old West, the old time, The old wind singing through The red, red grass a thousand miles — And Spanish Johnny, you! He’d […]

A Day-Dream’s Reflection Chequer’d with woven shadows as I lay Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam, I saw an Echo-Spirit in his bay Most idly […]

A Dream I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night; I went to the window to see the sight; All the Dead that ever I […]

A Gravestone Far from the churchyard dig his grave, On some green mound beside the wave; To westward, sea and sky alone, And sunsets. Put a […]

A Memory Four ducks on a pond, A grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing; What a little thing To remember […]

A Seed See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down, And through the Winter neglected lay, Uncoils two little green leaves and two brown, With tiny […]

A Singer That which he did not feel, he would not sing; What most he felt, religion it was to hide In a dumb darkling grotto, […]

Abbey Assaroe Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town, It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down; The carven-stones lie scatter’d in […]