Poems

I Know I Have Been Happiest I know I have been happiest at your side; But what is done, is done, and all’s to be. And […]

I Shall Come Back I shall come back without fanfaronade Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply; But, trembling, slip from cool Eternity- A mild and most […]

Incurable And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of […]

Indian Summer In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories. […]

Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move […]

Interior Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall. There […]

Interview The ladies men admire, I’ve heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light; They’d rather stay at home at night. […]

Inventory Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, […]

Iseult Of Brittany So delicate my hands, and long, They might have been my pride. And there were those to make them song Who for their […]

Landscape Now this must be the sweetest place From here to heaven’s end; The field is white and flowering lace, The birches leap and bend, The […]