Poems

Witchery Knows! Witchery knows what it means When the oats and the barley, the wheat and the beans, Have been built into stacks and the stubbles […]

Yonder he Goes! Always our fathers were hunters, lords of the pitiless spear, Chasing in English woodlands the wild white ox and the deer, Feeling the […]

The Departure of the Swallow AND is the swallow gone? Who beheld it? Which way sail’d it? Farewell bade it none? No mortal saw it go: […]

A Nosegay Always Sweet A NOSEGAY, lacking flowers fresh, To you now I do send; Desiring you to look thereon, When that you may intend: For […]

Pos de chantar Pos de chantar m’es pres talentz, Farai un vers don sui dolenz: Mais non serai obedienz, En Peitau ni en Lemozi. Translation: As […]

The Mathematician in Love I. A mathematician fell madly in love With a lady, young, handsome, and charming: By angles and ratios harmonic he strove Her […]

A Poor French Sailor’s Scottish Sweetheart I CANNOT forget my Joe, I bid him be mine in sleep; But battle and woe have changed him so […]

Amaturus Somewhere beneath the sun, These quivering heart-strings prove it, Somewhere there must be one Made for this soul, to move it; Some one that hides […]

Heraclitus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as […]

Mimnermus in Church YOU promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet, I […]