Poems

Epilogue: 1908 The droning tram swings westward: shrill the wire sings overhead, and chill midwinter draughts rattle the glass that shows the dusking way I pass […]

Fire in the Heavens Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills, and fire made solid in the flinty stone, thick-mass’d or scatter’d pebble, fire […]

I Am Shut Out Of Mine Own Heart I am shut out of mine own heart because my love is far from me, nor in the […]

I said, This Misery Must End I SAID, This misery must end: Shall I, that am a man and know that sky and wind are yet […]

My Heart Was Wandering in the Sands MY heart was wandering in the sands, a restless thing, a scorn apart; Love set his fire in my […]

O White Wind, Numbing the World O WHITE wind, numbing the world to a mask of suffering hate! and thy goblin pipes have skirl’d all night, […]

Poppies Poppies Where the poppy-banners flow in and out amongst the corn, spotless morn ever saw us come and go hand in hand, as girl and […]

Quis Pro Domino Quis Pro Domino? Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay– Ay’ verily: and by ministry of such men As did His […]

Romance Of old, on her terrace at evening …not here…in some long-gone kingdom O, folded close to her breast!… –our gaze dwelt wide on the blackness […]

Spring Breezes Spring breezes over the blue, now lightly frolicking in some tropic bay, go forth to meet her way, for here the spell hath won […]