Poems

The Intruder AS I sat, to sift my dreaming To the meet and needed word, Came a merry Interruption With insistence to be heard. Smiling stood […]

The Milkman EARLY in the morning, when the dawn is on the roofs, You hear his wheels come rolling, you hear his horses hoofs; You hear […]

The Music Box AT six–long ere the wintry dawn– There sounded through the silent hall To where I lay, with blankets drawn Above my ears, a […]

The Old Swimmer I OFTEN wander on the beach Where once, so brown of limb, The biting air, the roaring surf Summoned me to swim. I […]

The Secret IT was the House of Quietness To which I came at dusk; The garth was lit with roses And heavy with their musk. The […]

The Wedded Lover I READ in our old journals of the days When our first love was April-sweet and new, How fair it blossomed and deep-rooted […]

Tit for Tat I OFTEN pass a gracious tree Whose name I can’t identify, But still I bow, in courtesy It waves a bough, in kind […]

To A Child The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Still young […]

To a Post Office Inkwell How many humble hearts have dipped In you, and scrawled their manuscript! Have shared their secrets, told their cares, Their curious […]

To You, Remembering the Past WHEN we were parted, sweet, and darkness came, I used to strike a match, and hold the flame Before your picture […]