Poems

Adieu to Belshanny Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I’ll think of you, as sure as night and morn. […]

Aeolian Harp O pale green sea, With long, pale, purple clouds above – What lies in me like weight of love ? What dies in me […]

After Sunset The vast and solemn company of clouds Around the Sun’s death, lit, incarnadined, Cool into ashy wan; as Night enshrouds The level pasture, creeping […]

Amy Margaret’s Five Year Old Amy Margaret’s five years old, Amy Margaret’s hair is gold, Dearer twenty-thousand-fold Than gold, is Amy Margaret. “Amy” is friend, is […]

An Evening A sunset’s mounded cloud; A diamond evening-star; Sad blue hills afar; Love in his shroud. Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to […]

Autumnal Sonnet Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory […]

Down on the Shore Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright under boundless […]

Half-waking I thought it was the little bed I slept in long ago; A straight white curtain at the head, And two smooth knobs below. I […]

In a Spring Grove Here the white-ray’d anemone is born, Wood-sorrel, and the varnish’d buttercup; And primrose in its purfled green swathed up, Pallid and sweet […]

In Snow O English mother, in the ruddy glow Hugging your baby closer when outside You see the silent, soft, and cruel snow Falling again, and […]