Poems

Ghazal 9 The goblet as affliction’s Khusrev’s bright Keyani crown doth shine; And surely doth the wine-jar love’s King’s Khusrevani hoard enshrine. Whene’er the feast recalls […]

On Autumn Lo, ne’er a trace or sign of springtide’s beauty doth remain; Fall’n ‘midst the garden lie the leaves, now all their glory vain. Bleak […]

‘Twixt the Wings of the Yard Hear the loud swell of it, mighty pell mell of it, Thousands of voices all blent into one: See “hell […]

A Bushman’s Love You say we bushmen cannot love— Our lives are too prosaic: hence We lose or lack that finer sense That raises some few […]

A Memory Adown the grass-grown paths we strayed, The evening cowslips ope’d Their yellow eyes to look at her, The love-sick lilies moped With envy that […]

A Song I’ve a kiss from a warmer lover Than maiden earth can be: She blew it up to the skies above her, And now it […]

A Song From a Sandhill Drip, drip, drip! It tinkles on the fly— The pitiless outpouring of an overburdened sky: Each drooping frond of pine has […]

A Valentine A Valentine The Bree was up; the floods were out Around the hut of Culgo Jim: The hand of God had broke the drought […]

A Vision Out West Far reaching down’s a solid sea sunk everlastingly to rest, And yet whose billows seem to be for ever heaving toward the […]

A Wayside Queen She was born in the season of fire, When a mantle of murkiness lay On the front of the crimson Destroyer: And none […]