Poems

Es sang vor langen Jahren Es sang vor langen Jahren Wohl auch die Nachtigall; Das war wohl süßer Schall, Da wir zusammen waren. Ich sing und […]

O Mutter, halte dein Kindlein warm, O Mutter, halte dein Kindlein warm, Die Welt ist kalt und helle, Und trag es fromm in deinem Arm An […]

A Visit from St. Nicholas ‘Twas the night before Christmas,when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were […]

A Bell Had I the power To cast a bell that should from some grand tower, At the first Christmas hour, Outring, And fling A jubilant […]

A Day for Wandering I set apart a day for wandering; I heard the woodlands ring, The hidden white-throat sing, And the harmonic West, Beyond a […]

As I Came Down from Lebanon As I came down from Lebanon, Came winding, wandering slowly down Through mountain passes bleak and brown, The cloudless day […]

Bag-Pipes At Sea Above the shouting of the gale, The whipping sheet, the dashing spray, I heard, with notes of joy and wail, A piper play. […]

Italy In Arms Of all my dreams by night and day, One dream will evermore return, The dream of Italy in May; The sky a brimming […]

Khamsin Oh, the wind from the desert blew in! — Khamsin The wind from the desert blew in! It blew from the heart of the fiery […]

May in Umbria (Lyrics of the Dawn) Say, O wander-lover, say, What is May in Umbria? Days that never dim nor darkle; Nights that spangle, nights […]