Poems

Mortality “And we shall be changed.””And we shall be changed.” Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey, Pressed each to each in tender fold, And peacefully thus, day […]

Only a Woman “She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty love flames higher, As grass grows […]

Resigning “Poor heart, what bitter words we speak When God speaks of resigning!” Children, that lay their pretty garlands by So piteously, yet with a humble […]

The House of Clay THERE was a house, a house of clay, Wherein the inmate sat all day, Merry and poor; For Hope sat with her, […]

The Human Temple The Temple in Darkness Darkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, Whence, like little […]

Lee In The Mountains Walking into the shadows, walking alone Where the sun falls through the ruined boughs of locust Up to the president’s office. . […]

A Birthday Candle Thirty today, I saw The trees flare briefly like The candles on a cake, As the sun went down the sky, A momentary […]

A Map Of Love Your face more than others’ faces Maps the half-remembered places I have come to I while I slept— Continents a dream had […]

Absences It’s snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers. There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote, Like the memory of scales descending […]

Anonymous Drawing A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that we wonder if he […]