Poems

Two O’Clock Night after night goes by: and clocks still chime And stars are changing pattrns in the dark And watches tick, and over-puissant Time Benumbs […]

Washing the Dishes WHEN we on simple rations sup How easy is the washing up! But heavy feeding complicates The task by soiling many plates. And […]

When I a householder became EARLY in the morning, when the dawn is on the roofs, You hear his wheels come rolling, you hear his horses […]

Bird Language One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing together Over some ornithological joke. What […]

December No more the scarlet maples flash and burn Their beacon-fires from hilltop and from plain; The meadow-grasses and the woodland fern In the bleak woods […]

Gnosis Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought: Souls to souls never can teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits […]

My Old Palette Many a year has fled away Since this old palette was new, As may be seen by the spots of green And yellow […]

The Locomotive Whirling along its living freight, it came, Hot, panting, fierce, yet docile to command– The roaring monster, blazing through the land Athwart the night, […]

The Photograph Phoebus Apollo, from Olympus driven, Lived at Admetus, tending herds and flocks: And strolling o’er the pastures and the rocks He found his life […]

The Spirit Of The Age A wondrous light is filling the air, And rimming the clouds of the old despair; And hopeful eyes look up to […]