Poems

On The Last Regiment RELIC of that noble band, That slumber in their native land, Blest in death, in battle slain, On Warsaw’s dark ensanguin’d plain, […]

The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast Come take up your Hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly’s Ball, and the Grasshopper’s Feast. The […]

His Ally He fought for his soul, and the stubborn fighting Tried hard his strength. “One needs seven souls for thin long requiting,” He said at […]

How to Catch Unicorns Its cloven hoofprint on the sand Will lead you—where? Into a phantasmagoric land— Beware! There all the bright streams run up-hill. The […]

Mad Blake BLAKE saw a treeful of angels at Peckham Rye, And his hands could lay hold on the tiger’s terrible heart. Blake knew how deep […]

The Falconer of God I FLUNG my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, “Wait on, wait on, while I ride below! I […]

The Marvelous Munchausen The snug little room with its brazier fire aglow, And Piet and Sachs and Vroom — all in the long ago, — Oh, […]

The South Wind I’m as full of wisdom as a tree of leaves, But the South WInd flows, blows and grieves, Quivers every leaf with bewildering […]

A Harvest Hymn I. SMILE On, smile on, thou sentinel moon From yonder Heaven’s pure, azure deep. Over these happy hnrvest homes Night fondly folds to […]

A Psalm of the Union I. GOD of the Free! upon thy breath Our Flag is for the Right unrolled; Still broad and brave as when […]