Poems

A Half-Way Pause The turn of noontide has begun. In the weak breeze the sunshine yields. There is a bell upon the fields. On the long […]

A Last Confession Our Lombard country-girls along the coast Wear daggers in their garters: for they know That they might hate another girl to death Or […]

A Match With The Moon WEARY already, weary miles to-night I walked for bed: and so, to get some ease, I dogged the flying moon with […]

A New-Year’s Burden ALONG the grass sweet airs are blown Our way this day in Spring. Of all the songs that we have known Now which […]

A Prayer LADY, in thy proud eyes There is a weary look, As if the spirit we know through them Were daunted with rebuke To think […]

A Sea-Spell HER lute hangs shadowed in the apple-tree, While flashing fingers weave the sweet-strung spell Between its chords; and as the wild notes swell, The […]

A young Fir-Wood THESE little firs to-day are things To clasp into a giant’s cap, Or fans to suit his lady’s lap. From many winters many […]

Address To The Dalziel Brothers “O WOODMAN, spare that block, Oh gash not anyhow! It took ten days by clock, I’d fain protect it now.” Chorus—Wild […]

Adieu WAVING whispering trees, What do you say to the breeze And what says the breeze to you? ‘Mid passing souls ill at ease, Moving murmuring […]

After The French Liberation Of Italy AS when the last of the paid joys of love Has come and gone; and with a single kiss At […]