Poems

Villanelle It is the pain, it is the pain endures. Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through. Poise of my hands reminded me of yours. What […]

A Love by the Sea Out of the starless night that covers me, (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) Black as the cloud of some […]

A Thanksgiving From brief delights that rise to me Out of unfathomable dole, I thank whatever gods there be For mine unconquerable soul. In the strong […]

A Wink from Hesper A wink from Hesper, falling Fast in the wintry sky, Comes through the even blue, Dear, like a word from you… Is […]

Ballade of Dead Actors Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed For laughing […]

Beside the Idle Summer Sea Beside the idle summer sea, And in the vacant summer days, Light Love came fluting down the ways, Where you were […]

Between the Dusk of a Summer Night Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood […]

Bring Her Again Bring her again, O western wind, Over the western sea! Gentle and good and fair and kind, Bring her again to me! Not […]

Croquis The beach was crowded. Pausing now and then, He groped and fiddled doggedly along, His worn face glaring on the thoughtless throng The stony peevishness […]

Crosses and Troubles…. Crosses and troubles a-many have proved me. One or two women (God bless them) have loved me. I have worked and dreamed, and […]