Poems

With Penne, Inke, And Paper To A Distressed Friend Here is paper, pen, and inke, That your heart and seale may sinke Into such markes as […]

A Song from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Sung by Guiderus and Ar To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each op’ning sweet, of […]

Consolation How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cruise these […]

Dear Reader Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you have not closed the […]

Eclogue the First Selim SCENE, a Valley near Bagdat TIME, the Morning `Ye Persian maids, attend your poet’s lays, And hear how shepherds pass their golden […]

Eclogue the Fourth Agib SCENE, a Mountain in Circassia TIME, Midnight In fair Circassia, where, to love inclined, Each swain was blest, for every maid was […]

Eclogue the Second Hassan SCENE, the Desert TIME, Mid-day 10 In silent horror o’er the desert-waste The driver Hassan with his camels passed. One cruse of […]

Eclogue the Third Abra SCENE, a forest TIME, the Evening In Georgia’s land, where Tefflis’ towers are seen, In distant view along the level green, While […]

How Sleep The Brave HOW sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country’s wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to […]

Litany You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine… -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet […]