Poems

Persicos Odi Dear Lucy, you know what my wish is, — I hate all your Frenchified fuss: Your silly entrées and made dishes Were never intended […]

Sorrows of Werther Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting […]

The Age of Wisdom Ho! pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber’s shear, All your wish is woman to win; This […]

The Ballad of Buillabaisse A street there is in Paris famous, For which no rhyme our language yields, Rue Neuve de petits Champs its name is […]

The Cane-Bottom’d Chair In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars, And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, Away from the world, and its […]

The Mahogany Tree Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Shelter about The Mahogany Tree. Once […]

A Poetry Reading At West Point I read to the entire plebe class, in two batches. Twice the hall filled with bodies dressed alike, each toting […]

Dire Cure “First, do no harm,” the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm her tumor. It was […]

Homer’s Seeing-Eye Dog Most of the time he worked, a sort of sleep with a purpose, so far as I could tell. How he got from […]

Job Interview Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife He would have written sonnets all his life? DON JUAN, III, 63-4 “Where do you see […]