Poems

Ashore At Dover On landing, the first voice one hears is from An English police-constable; a man Respectful, conscious that at need he can Enforce respect. […]

Astarte Syriaca MYSTERY: lo! betwixt the sun and moon Astarte of the Syrians: Venus Queen Ere Aphrodite was. In silver sheen Her twofold girdle clasps the […]

At Issue THAT voice I hear,—how heard I cannot tell,— Although my home is this, seems from my home: There … still it trails along and […]

At The Station Of The Versailles Railway I WAITED for the train unto Versailles. I hung with bonnes and gamins on the bridge Watching the gravelled […]

At The Sun-Rise In 1848 God said, Let there be light; and there was light. Then heard we sounds as though the Earth did sing And […]

Autumn Song Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how […]

Ave Mother of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect in God’s sight, Now sitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity,— Being a daughter born to […]

“’Twas Thus” “’TWAS thus, thus is, and thus shall be: The Beautiful—the Good— Still mirror to the Human Soul Its own intensitude!”

“Found” “THERE is a budding morrow in midnight:”— So sang our Keats, our English nightingale. And here, as lamps across the bridge turn pale In London’s […]

Bambino Fasciato A PIPPO Pipistrello Farfalla la fanciulla: “O vedi quanto è bello Ridendo in questa culla! E noi l’abbiamo fatto, Noi due insiem d’ un […]