Poems

Beer In those old days which poets say were golden — (Perhaps they laid the gilding on themselves: And, if they did, I’m all the more […]

Changed I know not why my soul is rack’d: Why I ne’er smile as was my wont: I only know that, as a fact, I don’t. […]

Companions – A Tale Of A Grandfather I KNOW not of what we ponder’d Or made pretty pretence to talk, As, her hand within mine, we […]

Forever “Forever”: ’tis a single word! Our rude forefathers deemed it two: Can you imagine so absurd A view? “Forever”! What abysms of woe The word […]

Love Canst thou love me, lady? I’ve not learn’d to woo: Thou art on the shady Side of sixty too. Still I love thee dearly! Thou […]

Lovers and a Reflection In moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter (And heaven it knoweth what that may mean; Meaning, however, is no great matter) Where […]

On The Brink I WATCH’D her as she stoop’d to pluck A wild flower in her hair to twine; And wish’d that it had been my […]

Peace. A Study He stood, a worn-out City clerk — Who’d toil’d, and seen no holiday, For forty years from dawn to dark — Alone beside […]

The Auld Wife PART I The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently […]

Bells Of San Gabriel Thine was the corn and the wine, The blood of the grape that nourished; The blossom and fruit of the vine That […]