Poems

Dantis Tenebrae (In Memory of my Father) AND didst thou know indeed, when at the font Together with thy name thou gav’st me his, That also […]

Dawn On The Night-Journey TILL dawn the wind drove round me. It is past And still, and leaves the air to lisp of bird, And to […]

Dennis Shand THE shadows fall along the wall, It’s night at Haye-la-Serre; The maidens weave since day grew eve, The lady’s in her chair. O passing […]

Dis Manibus Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured rôle Was to be scribe to Nero’s soul, And make French flesh to creep and crow O’er Carthaginian Salammbô, Lies […]

Down Stream BETWEEN Holmscote and Hurstcote The river-reaches wind, The whispering trees accept the breeze, The ripple’s cool and kind; With love low-whispered ‘twixt the shores, […]

Duns Scotus HERE lies Duns Scotus Who died of lotus.

During Music O COOL unto the sense of pain That last night’s sleep could not destroy; O warm unto the sense of joy, That dreams its […]

Eden bower It was Lilith the wife of Adam: (Sing Eden Bower!) Not a drop of her blood was human, But she was made like a […]

English May WOULD God your health were as this month of May Should be, were this not England,—and your face Abroad, to give the gracious sunshine […]

Even So So it is, my dear. All such things touch secret strings For heavy hearts to hear. So it is, my dear. Very like indeed: […]