Poems

Liebestod When I was bold, when I was bold- And that’s a hundred years!- Oh, never I thought my breast could hold The terrible weight of […]

Light Of Love Joy stayed with me a night — Young and free and fair — And in the morning light He left me there. Then […]

Lines On Reading Too Many Poets Roses, rooted warm in earth, Bud in rhyme, another age; Lilies know a ghostly birth Strewn along a patterned page; […]

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and […]

Love Song My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of […]

Lullaby Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you; Drift, and so lightly, on crystalline streams. Wrapped in its perfumes, the darkness is holding you; Starlight […]

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They’ll try to make you different; […]

Midnight The stars are soft as flowers, and as near; The hills are webs of shadow, slowly spun; No separate leaf or single blade is here- […]

Mortal Enemy Let another cross his way- She’s the one will do the weeping! Little need I fear he’ll stray Since I have his heart in […]

My Own Then let them point my every tear, And let them mock and moan; Another week, another year, And I’ll be with my own Who […]