Poems

Love’s Saint Some lip will use her name–a rapt surprise, Passing the heart’s set ward, upon me steals. One word, to me, doth one saint canonize; […]

Proverbs One continent, one creed, one skin – Our health and savour lie therein. From wars and heavy things this grace is won – They urge […]

To winter in the Midst of his Reign Thou grim physician, armed with septic shears, Thou that dissemblest even in death’s repose Earth’s quiet pulse and […]

True Being True Being Rich hour! is not thy gift a radiant thing? The truth here blazoned in this marble and gold, Here writ in this […]

“But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance:” But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance: They howl and writhe […]

A Cradle Song Sweet dreams form a shade, O’er my lovely infants head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, By happy silent moony beams Sweet sleep with […]

A Divine Image Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress […]

A Dream Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, […]

A Little Boy Lost “Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to know. “And, […]

A Poison Tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it […]