Poems

Desire Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill The young blood, running wildly, as it must; But lips and eyes beget a strange distrust. Electric […]

Despair Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Like melting fog the mirage melts away In all-surrounding darkness, […]

Drunk The filthy beast! And is he here again, With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet, To taint the atmosphere and shame the street, And […]

Empty Can this be my poem?–this poor fragment Of bald thought in meanest language dressed! Can this string of rhymes be my sweep poem? All its […]

Evensong The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light O Lord, to Thee, with spirit meek and lowly, […]

Faith And is the great cause lost beyond recall? Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? […]

Fashion See those resplendent creatures, as they glide O’er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall, From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall– A dazzling vision in their pomp […]

Good-bye Good-bye! — ’tis like a churchyard bell — good-bye! Poor weeping eyes! Poor head, bowed down with woe! Kiss me again, dear love, before you […]

Granny Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent– The queen-bee of the hive. But hives […]

Grey Is the morning dim and cloudy? Does the wind drift up the leaves? Is there mist upon the mountains, where the sun shone yesterday? Are […]