Poems

I Shall Return I shall return again; I shall return To laugh and love and watch with wonder-eyes At golden noon the forest fires burn, Wafting […]

If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the […]

In Bondage I would be wandering in distant fields Where man, and bird, and beast, lives leisurely, And the old earth is kind, and ever yields […]

Jasmines Your scent is in the room. Swiftly it overwhelms and conquers me! Jasmines, night jasmines, perfect of perfume, Heavy with dew before the dawn of […]

La Paloma in London About Soho we went before the light; We went, unresting six, craving new fun, New scenes, new raptures, for the fevered night […]

Memorial Your body was a sacred cell always, A jewel that grew dull in garish light, An opal which beneath my wondering gaze Gleamed rarely, softly […]

Morning Joy At night the wide and level stretch of wold, Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold, Far as the eye could see […]

My Mother I Reg wished me to go with him to the field, I paused because I did not want to go; But in her quiet […]

North and South O sweet are tropic lands for waking dreams! There time and life move lazily along. There by the banks of blue-and-silver streams Grass-sheltered […]

O Word I Love to Sing O word I love to sing! thou art too tender For all the passions agitating me; For all my bitterness […]