Poems

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew, It is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings, And I […]

The Lake Isle O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, With the little […]

The Logical Conclusion When earth’s last thesis is copied From the theses that went before, When idea from fact has departed And bare-boned factlets shall bore, […]

The Needle Come, or the stellar tide will slip away. Eastward avoid the hour of its decline, Now! for the needle trembles in my soul! Here […]

The Plunge I would bathe myself in strangeness: These comforts heaped upon me, smother me! I burn, I scald so for the new, New friends, new […]

The Return See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, […]

The River-Merchant’s Wife While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo […]

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling flowers. […]

The Seafarer (From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song’s truth reckon, Journey’s jargon, how I in harsh days Hardship endured oft. […]

The Seeing Eye The small dogs look at the big dogs; They observe unwieldy dimensions And curious imperfections of odor. Here is the formal male group: […]