Poems

Raleigh’s Cell In The Tower HERE writ was the World’s History by his hand Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his world In these few […]

Returning To Brussels Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep, I passed a little consecrated shrine, Where, among simple pictures ranged in line, The blessed […]

Rose Mary Of her two fights with the Beryl-stone Lost the first, but the second won. PART I “MARY mine that art Mary’s Rose Come in […]

Sacrament Hymn ON a fair Sabbath day, when His banquet is spread, It is pleasant to feast with my Lord: His stewards stand robed at the […]

Sacred To the Memory of Algernon R. G. Stanhope “THE silver cord is loosed,” he said, “The golden bowl is broken; A few more prayers having […]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove The father-songster plies the hour-long quest), To feed his soul-brood hungering in the nest; […]

Shakespear Dear friend, if there be any bond Which friendship wins not much beyond— So old and fond, since thought began— It may be that whose […]

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Antwerp) “Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres”: We felt odd: ‘Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid church Was the next thing we saw,—from […]

Sister Helen “Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day is the third since you began.” “The time was long, yet the time ran, […]

Smithereens UNCERTAIN-AGED Miss Thereabouts, Tough fossil of her teens, Has lifted up with saving hand The ruined Smithereens. Down the dark steps of debt that hand […]