Poems

The Wood BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West […]

Winter Stores WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, From tears and sadness […]

A Farewell Remember me and smile, as smiling too, I have remembered things that went their way– The dolls with which I grew too wise to […]

A Quoi Bon Dire Seventeen years ago you said Something that sounded like Good-bye; And everybody thinks that you are dead, But I. So I, as […]

Absence Sometimes I know the way You walk, up over the bay; It is a wind from that far sea That blows the fragrance of your […]

From a Window Up here, with June, the sycamore throws Across the window a whispering screen; I shall miss the sycamore more I suppose, Than anything […]

I Have Been Through The Gates His heart to me, was a place of palaces and pinnacles and shining towers; I saw it then as we […]

I So Liked Spring I so liked Spring last year Because you were here;- The thrushes too- Because it was these you so liked to hear- […]

In The Fields Lord when I look at lovely things which pass, Under old trees the shadow of young leaves Dancing to please the wind along […]

Monsieur Qui Passe A purple blot against the dead white door In my friend’s rooms, bathed in their vile pink light, I had not noticed her […]