Poems

April’s Charms When April scatters charms of primrose gold Among the copper leaves in thickets old, And singing skylarks from the meadows rise, To twinkle like […]

April’s Lambs Though I was born in April’s prime, With many another lamb, Yet, thinking now of all my years, What am I but a tough […]

Bird And Brook My song, that’s bird-like in its kind, Is in the mind, Love–in the mind; And in my season I am moved No more […]

Charms She walks as lightly as the fly Skates on the water in July. To hear her moving petticoat For me is music’s highest note. Stones […]

Children At Play I hear a merry noise indeed: Is it the geese and ducks that take Their first plunge in a quiet pond That into […]

Christmas Christmas has come, let’s eat and drink– This is no time to sit and think; Farewell to study, books and pen, And welcome to all […]

Come, Let Us Find Come, let us find a cottage, love, That’s green for half a mile around; To laugh at every grumbling bee, Whose sweetest […]

Days Too Short When primroses are out in Spring, And small, blue violets come between; When merry birds sing on boughs green, And rills, as soon […]

Dream Tragedies Thou art not always kind, O sleep: What awful secrets them dost keep In store, and ofttimes make us know; What hero has not […]

Dreams Of The Sea I know not why I yearn for thee again, To sail once more upon thy fickle flood; I’ll hear thy waves wash […]