Poems

Love’s Ritual Breathe me the ancient words when I shall find Your spirit mine; if, seeking you, life wins New wonder, with old splendor let us […]

Of One Self-Slain When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, […]

Silence I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; […]

The City When, sick of all the sorrow and distress That flourished in the City like foul weeds, I sought blue rivers and green, opulent meads, […]

The Quiet Singer (Ave! Francis Thompson) HE had been singing—but I had not heard his voice; He had been weaving lovely dreams of song, O many […]

Waiting I thought my heart would break Because the Spring was slow. I said, “How long young April sleeps Beneath the snow!” But when at last […]

A Basket of Summer Fruit First see those ample melons-brindled o’er With mingled green and brown is all the rind; For they are ripe, and mealy […]

A Coast View High ’mid the shelves of a grey cliff, that yet Riseth in Babylonian mass above, In a benched cleft, as in the mouldered […]

A Dream of the Orient With a resplendent Eastern bride, Like a houri at my side, And music round us swelling, ’Mid odours of so rare […]

A Flight of Wild Ducks Far up the River-hark! ‘tls the loud shock Deadened by distance, of some Fowler’s gun: And as into the stillness of […]