Poems

At Sea When the investing darkness growls, And deep reverberates to deep; When keyhole whines and chimney howls, And all the roofs and windows weep; Then, […]

Aunt Dorothy’s Lecture Come, go and practise–get your work– Do something, Nelly, pray. I hate to see you moon about In this uncertain way! Why do […]

Autumn. So still–so still! Only the endless sighing Of sad Æolian harp-notes overhead; Only the soft mass-music for the dying; Only the requiem for the newly […]

Awake Calm as that moonbeam on the wall, Sleep broods on baby’s eyes; Arms, hush’d and still, but pulsing quick, Enfold him as he lies; My […]

By a Norfolk Broad One hour ago the crimson sun, that seemed so long a-drowning, sank. The summer day is all but done. Our boat is […]

By The Camp Fire Ah, ’twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide; The purple hill-tops, one by one, were strangely […]

Contentment Is it a virtue, as the sages say, The “trivial round and common task” to ply, And for no wider walk of life to sigh […]

Craven-Heart Those anguished voices in the air! Oh, I could shriek and tear my hair In rage, rebellion and despair. But what is one, amid a […]

Dawnlight On The Sea When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking; Sleep fetters still the brown wings of the lark; The wind blows pure […]

Dead “On board the Petrel, in St. Lucia’s bay, Of yellow fever–aged twenty-nine.” “Who did you say, my lady?” drawled the Earl. “The duke–what duke?” “I […]