Poems

To William Sharp The waves about Iona dirge, The wild winds trumpet over Skye; Shrill around Arran’s cliff-bound verge The gray gulls cry. Spring wraps its […]

Wheat Behold a billowy sea of golden spears That to and fro in every breeze that blows Tosses its amber waves and proudly shows Bright scarlet […]

Rain On The Roof When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres, And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What a joy […]

The Blind Boy O SAY what is that thing call’d Light, Which I must ne’er enjoy; What are the blessings of the sight, O tell your […]

A Letter From Li Po Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. Somewhere […]

All Lovely Things All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die, And youth, that’s now so bravely spending, Will beg […]

Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often […]

Chiaroscuro Rose He Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. Sit at the western window. Take the sun Between your hands like […]

Discordants I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that […]

Evening Song Of Senlin It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight, Crash […]