Poems

Three Shadows I LOOKED and saw your eyes In the shadow of your hair, As a traveller sees the stream In the shadow of the wood; […]

Tiber, Nile, And Thames THE head and hands of murdered Cicero, Above his seat high in the Forum hung, Drew jeers and burning tears. When on […]

To Art I LOVED thee ere I loved a woman, Love.

To Mary In Summer LAY your head here, Mary, Lay your head here, While the blown grass, Mary, With timid voice and wary, Sings in your […]

To Philip Bourke Marston, Inciting Me To Poetic Work SWEET Poet, thou of whom these years that roll Must one day yet the burdened birthright learn, […]

To The P.R.B. Woolner and Stephens, Collinson, Millais, And my first brother, each and every one, What portion is theirs now beneath the sun Which, even […]

To Thomas Woolner First Snow, February WOOLNER, to-night it snows for the first time. Our feet know well the path where in this snow Mine leave […]

Troy Town HEAVENBORN Helen, Sparta’s queen, (O Troy Town!) Had two breasts of heavenly sheen, The sun and moon of the heart’s desire: All Love’s lordship […]

Untimely Lost Oliver Madox Brown… UPON the landscape of his coming life A youth high-gifted gazed, and found it fair: The heights of work, the floods […]

Untitled #1 CON manto d’oro, collana, ed anelli, Le piace aver con quelli Non altro che una rosa ai suoi capelli. WITH golden mantle, rings, and […]