Poems

Faute De Mieux Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme- I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.

Fighting Words Say my love is easy had, Say I’m bitten raw with pride, Say I am too often sad- Still behold me at your side. […]

Finis Now it’s over, and now it’s done; Why does everything look the same? Just as bright, the unheeding sun, — Can’t it see that the […]

For A Favorite Granddaughter Never love a simple lad, Guard against a wise, Shun a timid youth and sad, Hide from haunted eyes. Never hold your […]

For A Lady Who Must Write Verse Unto seventy years and seven, Hide your double birthright well- You, that are the brat of Heaven And the […]

For A Sad Lady And let her loves, when she is dead, Write this above her bones: “No more she lives to give us bread Who […]

For An Unknown Lady Lady, if you’d slumber sound, Keep your eyes upon the ground. If you’d toss and turn at night, Slip your glances left […]

From A Letter From Lesbia … So, praise the gods, Catullus is away! And let me tend you this advice, my dear: Take any lover that […]

Frustration If I had a shiny gun, I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folk who give me pains; […]

Fulfillment For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage […]