Poems

Alternative Who turns him from his earthly love Must other lovers meet and prove: Through plunging lands careened from light Into the crimson-starred abyss, He goes […]

Amor This is the fire of Hestia’s careful hearth; The flame that fed on many-towered Troy; Selene’s light about the Latmian boy; The all-consuming ardor of […]

Amor Aeternalis O Love, thou Judas of the martyred soul! Thou pandar to the painted harlot, Life ! The rankest lies wherewith thy heart is rife […]

Amor Autumnalis My love is the flame of an unfading autumn, It is the flare of unconsuming leaves In an ecstasy of halcyonian space and light; […]

Amor Hesternalis Our blood is swayed by sunken moons And lulled by midnights long foredone; We waken to a foundered sun In Atlantean afternoons: Our blood […]

Anodyne of Autumn Full-ripened on the bough, Pends the bright apple now, And the lees fall from out the unclouded wine. These memories that return Pour […]

Anterior Life (La Vie Anterieure) Long since, I lived in lordly porches fronting With thronged, enormous pillars to the tide, Where day as in basaltic caverns […]

Anteros What voice, O vengeful Anteros, Has called thee from the seedless weald ?— Dark sower of the tares of loss Amid the foison of love’s […]

Apologia O gentlest love, I have not played For you upon the lute of jade; Nor on that fabulous bassoon Wrought from the horns of minotaurs, […]

Ashes of Sunset Who fares to find the sunset ere it fly, Turning to light and fire the further west, Shall have the veils of twilight […]