Poems

Sonnett VI: A Nuptial Sleep At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart: And as the last slow sudden drops are shed From sparkling eaves […]

Soothsay Let no man ask thee of anything Not yearborn between Spring and Spring. More of all worlds than he can know, Each day the single […]

Spheral Change IN this new shade of Death, the show Passes me still of form and face; Some bent, some gazing as they go, Some swiftly, […]

Spring SOFT-LITTERED is the new-year’s lambing-fold, And in the hollowed haystack at its side The shepherd lies o’ nights now, wakeful-eyed At the ewes’ travailing call […]

St. Wagner’s Eve THE hop—shop is shut up: the night doth wear. Here, early, Collinson this evening fell “Into the gulfs of sleep”; and Deverell Has […]

Stratton Water “O HAVE you seen the Stratton flood That’s great with rain to-day? It runs beneath your wall, Lord Sands, Full of the new-mown hay. […]

Sunset Wings TO-NIGHT this sunset spreads two golden wings Cleaving the western sky; Winged too with wind it is, and winnowings Of birds; as if the […]

The Blessed Damozel The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; […]

The Bride’s Prelude “Sister,” said busy Amelotte To listless Aloÿse; “Along your wedding-road the wheat Bends as to hear your horse’s feet, And the noonday stands […]

The Brothers: By A Scotch Bard And English Reviewer I AM two brothers with one face, So which is the real man who can trace? (My […]