Poems

“Star Light, Star Bright–“ Star, that gives a gracious dole, What am I to choose? Oh, will it be a shriven soul, Or little buckled shoes? […]

A Dream Lies Dead A dream lies dead here. May you softly go Before this place, and turn away your eyes, Nor seek to know the […]

A Fairly Sad Tale I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men […]

A Pig’s-Eye View Of Literature The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron Byron and Shelley and Keats […]

A Portrait Because my love is quick to come and go- A little here, and then a little there- What use are any words of mine […]

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. […]

A Well-Worn Story In April, in April, My one love came along, And I ran the slope of my high hill To follow a thread of […]

After Spanish Proverb Oh, mercifullest one of all, Oh, generous as dear, None lived so lowly, none so small, Thou couldst withhold thy tear: How swift, […]

Afternoon When I am old, and comforted, And done with this desire, With Memory to share my bed And Peace to share my fire, I’ll comb […]

Alexandre Dumas And His Son Although I work, and seldom cease, At Dumas pere and Dumas fils, Alas, I cannot make me care For Dumas fils […]