Poems

Love’s Loneliness Old fathers, great-grandfathers, Rise as kindred should. If ever lover’s loneliness Came where you stood, Pray that Heaven protect us That protect your blood. […]

Lullaby Beloved, may your sleep be sound That have found it where you fed. What were all the world’s alarms To mighty paris when he found […]

Mad As The Mist And Snow Bolt and bar the shutter, For the foul winds blow: Our minds are at their best this night, And I […]

Maid Quiet WHERE has Maid Quiet gone to, Nodding her russet hood? The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood. O how could […]

Man And The Echo Man. In a cleft that’s christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad noon has […]

Meditations In Time Of Civil War I Ancestral Houses SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows […]

Meeting Hidden by old age awhile In masker’s cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we stood: ‘That I have met […]

Memory ONE had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain Because the mountain grass Cannot but keep […]

Men Improve With The Years I AM worn out with dreams; A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams; And all day long I look Upon this […]

Michael Robartes and the Dancer He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push That […]