Poems

Pandora (For a Picture) WHAT of the end, Pandora? Was it thine, The deed that set these fiery pinions free? Ah! wherefore did the Olympian consistory […]

Parody Of “Uncle Ned” DERE was an old nigger, and him name was Uncle Tom, And him tale was rather slow; Me try to read de […]

Parted Presence LOVE, I speak to your heart, Your heart that is always here. Oh draw me deep to its sphere, Though you and I are […]

Penumbra I DID not look upon her eyes, (Though scarcely seen, with no surprise, ‘Mid many eyes a single look,) Because they should not gaze rebuke, […]

Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Twixt those twin worlds,—the world of Sleep, which gave No dream to warn,—the tidal world of Death, Which the earth’s sea, as the […]

Place De La Bastille, Paris How dear the sky has been above this place! Small treasures of this sky that we see here Seen weak through […]

Plighted Promise IN a soft-complexioned sky, Fleeting rose and kindling grey, Have you seen Aurora fly At the break of day? So my maiden, so my […]

Possession THERE is a cloud above the sunset hill, That wends and makes no stay, For its goal lies beyond the fiery west; A lingering breath […]

Praise And Prayer DOUBT spake no word in me as there I kneeled. Loathing, I could not praise: I could not thank God for the cup […]

Proserpina LUNGI è la luce che in sù questo muro Rifrange appena, un breve istante scorta Del rio palazzo alla soprana porta. Lungi quei fiori d’Enna, […]