Poems

Joshua When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan’s bank, And past the flood that backward rolled His host came dryshod, rank […]

Life and Death A little light, heat, motion, breath; Then silence, darkness, and decay; This is the change from life to death In him the weareth […]

Love My soul; is raying like a star, My heart is happier than a bird, And all because, through fortune’s jar, I hear one little word. […]

Love Sonnets I. HOW beautiful doth the morning rise O’er the hills, as from her bower a bride Comes brightened—blushing with the shame-faced pride Of love […]

Love, Dreaming of Death I dreamt my little boys were dead And I was sitting wild and lone; On closed unmoving knees my head Lay rigid […]

Marvellous Martin Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbear To question thus his friend, What prig goes there? So much hath Nature, as ’tis […]

Mary Arden When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote, Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning note, Did no English ear […]

Modern Poetry How I hate those modern Poems Vaguer, looser than a dream! Pointless things that look like poems Only, to some held-back theme! Wild unequal, […]

Monodies I. I stand in thought beside my father’s grave: The grave of one who, in his old age, died Too late perhaps, since he endured […]

Music In vain, when music’s seraph-fire Runs kindling through the air, Making it such as gods respire, (And gods perhaps are there!) In vain would words […]