Poems

The Searched Soul When I consider, pro and con, What things my love is built upon — A curly mouth; a sinewed wrist; A questioning brow; […]

The Second Oldest Story Go I must along my ways Though my heart be ragged, Dripping bitter through the days, Festering, and jagged. Smile I must […]

The Small Hours No more my little song comes back; And now of nights I lay My head on down, to watch the black And wait […]

The Thin Edge With you, my heart is quiet here, And all my thoughts are cool as rain. I sit and let the shifting year Go […]

The Trifler Death’s the lover that I’d be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he. Small’s his care if my heart be breaking- Gay young […]

The Trusting Heart Oh, I’d been better dying, Oh, I was slow and sad; A fool I was, a-crying About a cruel lad! But there was […]

The Veteran When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong! My plume on high, my flag unfurled, I […]

The Whistling Girl Back of my back, they talk of me, Gabble and honk and hiss; Let them batten, and let them be- Me, I can […]

The White Lady I cannot rest, I cannot rest In straight and shiny wood, My woven hands upon my breast– The dead are all so good! […]

The Willow On sweet young earth where the myrtle presses, Long we lay, when the May was new; The willow was winding the moon in her […]