Poems

The Immortals If you should sail for Trebizond, or die, Or cry another name in your first sleep, Or see me board a train, and fail […]

The Lady’s Reward Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and […]

The Last Question New love, new love, where are you to lead me? All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line. How are you […]

The Leal The friends I made have slipped and strayed, And who’s the one that cares? A trifling lot and best forgot- And that’s my tale, […]

The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom; I’ve experienced zephyr and raw gust And […]

The Maid-Servant At The Inn “It’s queer,” she said; “I see the light As plain as I beheld it then, All silver-like and calm and bright- […]

The New Love If it shine or if it rain, Little will I care or know. Days, like drops upon a pane, Slip, and join, and […]

The Red Dress I always saw, I always said If I were grown and free, I’d have a gown of reddest red As fine as you […]

The Satin Dress Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where’s the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? See the stitches […]

The Sea Who lay against the sea, and fled, Who lightly loved the wave, Shall never know, when he is dead, A cool and murmurous grave. […]