Poems

Zudora Here on the pale beach, in the darkness; With the full moon just to rise; They sit alone, and look over the sea, Or into […]

Kentucky Belle Summer of ‘sixty-three, sir, and Conrad was gone away– Gone to the country town, sir, to sell our first load of hay. We lived […]

Yellow Jessamine In tangled wreaths, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining through the woods These February days; Forth go […]

According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi “What distillate can be discovered from herbs of a witching brew,” said an aesthete, “what distillate prepared according […]

Addition I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy. Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in mind — that in the […]

Aemilianus Monae, Alexandrian, 628 – 655 A.D. With words, with countenance, and with manners I shall build an excellent panoply; and in this way I shall […]

Alexandrian Kings The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra’s children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first time they lead out […]

An Old Man At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent over the table, an old man sits alone, a newspaper in front of him. […]

Anna Comnena In the prologue to her Alexiad, Anna Comnena laments her widowhood. Her soul is dizzy. “And with rivers of tears,” she tells us “I […]

Anna Dalassené In the golden bull that Alexios Comnenos issued to prominently honor his mother, the very sagacious Lady Anna Dalassené— distinguished in her works, in […]