Poems

Waiting for the Barbarians What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn’t anything happening in the senate? […]

Walls With no consideration, no pity, no shame, they have built walls around me, thick and high. And now I sit here feeling hopeless. I can’t […]

Comedy I am the Comic Muse, Soft as the summer rain, Come the children I bear Out of the breath of my brain; Love,—and Laughter that […]

Path that Leads to Nowhere There’s a path that leads to nowhere In a meadow that I know, Where an indian river rises And the stream […]

Tragedy I am the Tragic Muse; Born of the web of my brain, Lo ! my children shall pass, Poverty, Pathos, and Pain; Labor,—and Love forsworn, […]

The Body of Divinity Versifyed A God there is, a God of boundless Might, In Wisdom, Justice, Goodness, Infinite. God is but One and yet in […]

For A Lady I Know She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and snores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To […]

For A Poet I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long will cling the […]

From the Dark Tower We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser […]

Fruit of the Flower My father is a quiet man With sober, steady ways; For simile, a folded fan; His nights are like his days. My […]