Poems

Weep No More For What Is Past WEEP no more for what is past, For time in motion makes such haste He hath no leisure to […]

Dead SOMETHING lies in the room Over against my own; The windows are lit with a ghastly bloom Of candles, burning alone, Untrimmed, and all aflare […]

Earliest Spring TOSSING his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles, Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath, Through all the moaning chimneys, and […]

Friends and Foes BITTER the things one’s enemies will say Against one sometimes when one is away, But of a bitterness far more intense The things […]

From Generation to Generation INNOCENT spirits, bright, immaculate ghosts! Why throng your heavenly hosts, As eager for their birth In this sad home of death, this […]

If YES, death is at the bottom of the cup, And every one that lives must drink it up; And yet between the sparkle at the […]

Living HOW passionately I will my life away Which I would give all that I have to stay; How wildly I hurry, for the change I […]

The Bewildered Guest I WAS not asked if I should like to come. I have not seen my host here since I came, Or had a […]

The Passengers Of A Retarded Submersible THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible? We have been very anxious lest matters […]

The Song The Oriole Sings There is a bird that comes and sings In a professor’s garden-trees; Upon the English oak he swings, And tilts and […]