Poems

My Heart is Lame My heart is lame with running after yours so fast Such a long way, Shall we walk slowly home, looking at all […]

On the Road to the Sea We passed each other, turned and stopped for half an hour, then went our way, I who make other women […]

Sea Love Tide be runnin’ the great world over: ‘Twas only last June month I mind that we Was thinkin’ the toss and the call in […]

The Cenotaph Not yet will those measureless fields be green again Where only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed; There is a […]

The Changeling Toll no bell for me, dear Father dear Mother, Waste no sighs; There are my sisters, there is my little brother Who plays in […]

The Farmer’s Bride Three summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe-but more’s to do At harvest-time that a bide and woo. When us was […]

The Peddler Lend me, a little while, the key That locks your heavy heart, and I’ll give you back– Rarer than books and ribbons and beads […]

The Trees Are Down and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees – Revelation They are cutting […]

To A Child In Death You would have scoffed if we had told you yesterday Love made us feel, or so it was with me, like […]

A Conservative The garden beds I wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfly, A-sitting on a thorn, A black and […]