Poems

Mohini Chatterjee I ASKED if I should pray. But the Brahmin said, “pray for nothing, say Every night in bed, “”I have been a king, I […]

Never Give All The Heart NEVER give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and […]

News For The Delphic Oracle THERE all the golden codgers lay, There the silver dew, And the great water sighed for love, And the wind sighed […]

Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen MANY ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the moon That pitches […]

No Second Troy WHY should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men […]

O Do Not Love Too Long SWEETHEART, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an […]

Oil And Blood IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads […]

Old Memory O THOUGHT, fly to her when the end of day Awakens an old memory, and say, “Your strength, that is so lofty and fierce […]

Old Tom Again Things out of perfection sail, And all their swelling canvas wear, Nor shall the self-begotten fail Though fantastic men suppose Building-yard and stormy […]

On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac YOUR hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots […]