Poems

Memnon Why dost thou hail with songful lips no more The glorious sunrise?—Why is Memnon mute, Whose voice was tuned as is the silvery flute When […]

Midnight- The world is locked in sleep with perfect night. Gazing from out my window I behold The moon, a burnished bowl of gleaming gold, Hung […]

Pomona- At noon of night the goddess, silver-stoled, Came with light foot across the moonlit land, And breezes soft as blow o’er Samarcand Stirred her free […]

Sidney Godolphin THEY rode from the camp at morn With clash of sword and spur. The birds were loud in the thorn, The sky was an […]

Sylvia- Sylvia’s hair is like the night, Touched with glancing starry beams; Such a face as drifts thro’ dreams, This is Sylvia to the sight. And […]

The Fountain- A Triton, drowsy as the god of Sleep, From horn uplifted pours a limpid stream Athwart whose falling drops the sunbeams gleam Through waving […]

The Inn of the Five Chimneys It had five chimneys, had that Inn, (As every man has senses five, The while upon earth he bides alive) […]

The Statue- As perfect in their symmetry as thine, O inarticulate marble lips, were those My love once raised to mine, yet tinged with rose And […]

The Visitor- WITHOUT my door at morning-tide There rang a summons hale and fair; I roused and threw the portal wide, And lo, young April there! […]

To heal mine aching moods To heal mine aching moods, Give me God’s virgin woods.