Poems

Ornithology For Beginners The bird that feeds from off my palm Is sleek, affectionate, and calm, But double, to me, is worth the thrush A-flickering in […]

Oscar Wilde If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said […]

Parable For A Certain Virgin Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. How truly fortified […]

Partial Comfort Whose love is given over-well Shall look on Helen’s face in hell, Whilst those whose love is thin and wise May view John Knox […]

Paths I shall tread, another year, Ways I walked with Grief, Past the dry, ungarnered ear And the brittle leaf. I shall stand, a year apart, […]

Pattern Leave me to my lonely pillow. Go, and take your silly posies Who has vowed to wear the willow Looks a fool, tricked out in […]

Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, […]

Philosophy If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I […]

Pictures In The Smoke Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine; The second love was water, in a clear white cup; The third […]

Plea Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart; You’d have me know of you your least transgression, And so the intimate places of your heart, […]