Poems

You and I They say the eagle is a bird That sees some splendid sights When he soars high into the sky Upon his dizzy flights: […]

Yule Fever (With apologies to the King’s Minstrel) I must go down to the shops again, to the crowded shops go I And all I have […]

Abandoned Plum-Orchard Lichen, mistletoe, aloft In the dying croft, Leaf the winter trees.

Adjuration Sweet Lesbia,when our love is done, Leave no reproachful shade or blot, No least reproof, on all or aught That made us twain, that made […]

Aftermath of Mining Days Monotonously rolled On the hills the broom Spreads its many-acred gold.

Afterwards There is a silence in the world Since we have said farewell; And beauty with an alien speech An alien tale would tell. There is […]

Alchemy of Sorrow One with his fervor shall inform The world, and one with all his sorrow: One sees a glad, unsetting morrow, One hears the […]

Alexandrines Knowing the weariness of dreams, and days, and nights, The great and grievous vanity of joy and pain; Frail loves that pass, where languors infinite […]

All is Dross that is not Helena What wistful lover has not mused upon The waste of years that never knew his love! And, wanting her […]

Almost Anything Superlatively sonorous Like a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails; Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberant Like the quobbing of a foetus five months […]