Poems

The Lent Lily ‘Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. […]

The Merry Guide Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ran gold. There […]

The New Mistress “Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? You may be good for something, but you are not […]

The rainy Pleiads wester The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads wester, And […]

The Recruit Leave your home behind, lad, And reach your friends your hand, And go, and luck go with you While Ludlow tower shall stand. Oh, […]

The Stinging Nettle The stinging nettle only Will still be found to stand: The numberless, the lonely, The thronger of the land, The leaf that hurts […]

The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, […]

The True Lover The lad came to the door at night, When lovers crown their vows, And whistled soft and out of sight In shadow of […]

The Welsh Marches High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream; The bridges from the steepled crest Cross the water east and west. The […]

The Winds Out of the West Land Blow The winds out of the west land blow, My friends have breathed them there; Warm with the blood […]