Poems

The Burned Child Love has had his way with me. This my heart is torn and maimed Since he took his play with me. Cruel well […]

The Choice He’d have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle between my hands, Smoldering rubies, to circle my arms. […]

The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse And now I have another lad! No longer need you tell How all my nights are slow and sad For […]

The Dark Girl’s Rhyme Who was there had seen us Wouldn’t bid him run? Heavy lay between us All our sires had done. There he was, […]

The Dramatists A string of shiny days we had, A spotless sky, a yellow sun; And neither you nor I was sad When that was through […]

The Evening Primrose You know the bloom, unearthly white, That none has seen by morning light- The tender moon, alone, may bare Its beauty to the […]

The False Friends They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hurt, they said, And time […]

The Flaw In Paganism Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

The Gentlest Lady They say He was a serious child, And quiet in His ways; They say the gentlest lady smiled To hear the neighbors’ praise. […]

The Homebody There still are kindly things for me to know, Who am afraid to dream, afraid to feel- This little chair of scrubbed and sturdy […]