Sonnet LXX: The Hill Summit
Sonnet LXX: The Hill Summit This feast-day of the sun, his altar there In the broad west has blazed for vesper-song; And I have loitered in […]
READ MORESonnet LXXIX: The Monochord
Sonnet LXXIX: The Monochord Is it this sky’s vast vault or ocean’s sound That is Life’s self and draws my life from me, And by instinct […]
READ MORESonnet LXXVII: Soul’s Beauty
Sonnet LXXVII: Soul’s Beauty Under the arch of Life, where love and death, Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned; and though her […]
READ MORESonnet LXXVIII: Body’s Beauty
Sonnet LXXVIII: Body’s Beauty Of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) That, ere the snake’s, her […]
READ MORESonnet LXXX: From Dawn to Noon
Sonnet LXXX: From Dawn to Noon As the child knows not if his mother’s face Be fair; nor of his elders yet can deem What each […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds
Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds What place so strange,—though unrevealèd snow With unimaginable fires arise At the earth’s end,—what passion of surprise Like frost-bound fire-girt scenes of […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy
Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy I said: “Nay, pluck not,—let the first fruit be: Even as thou sayest, it is sweet and red, But let it ripen […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring
Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring Once more the changed year’s turning wheel returns: And as a girl sails balanced in the wind, And now before and now […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXIV: Farewell to the Glen
Sonnet LXXXIV: Farewell to the Glen Sweet stream-fed glen, why say “farewell” to thee Who far’st so well and find’st for ever smooth The brow of […]
READ MORESonnet LXXXIX: The Trees of the Garden
Sonnet LXXXIX: The Trees of the Garden Ye who have passed Death’s haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know […]
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