Poems

Spring Spring am I, too soft of heart Much to speak ere I depart: Ask the Summer-tide to prove The abundance of my love.

Summer Summer looked for long am I: Much shall change or e’er I die. Prithee take it not amiss Though I weary thee with bliss.

Summer Dawn Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips, Think but one thought of me up in the stars. The summer night waneth, […]

The Chapel in Lyonesse SIR OZANA. All day long and every day, From Christmas-Eve to Whit-Sunday, Within that Chapel-aisle I lay, And no man came a-near. […]

The Defence of Guenevere But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand close to […]

The Doomed Ship The doomed ship drives on helpless through the sea, All that the mariners may do is done And death is left for men […]

The Earthly Paradise: Apology Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make quick-coming death […]

The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom […]

The Eve of Crecy #160; Gold on her head, and gold on her feet, #160; And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet, #160; And […]

The Haystack in the Floods Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the dirt […]