Poems

Holy Communion Father, for Jesus’ sake, Low at the footstool of Thy throne, I pray That Thou, into Thine arms of love, to-day My trembling soul […]

Home-Sick O time, great Healer! canst thou still The crying hearts that feel the knife? O great Restorer, canst thou fill The wide gaps broken out […]

Honour Me let the world disparage and despise — As one unfettered with its gilded chains, As one untempted by its sordid gains, Its pleasant vice, […]

In Memoriam “He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever.” Life–length of days–the time to work and […]

Individuality Phew! ‘T’is a stuffy and stupid place, This social edifice by Custom wrought– This fenced enclosure wherein all are caught, The great and small, the […]

Influence As in the deeps of embryonic night, Out of unfathomable obscurities Of Nature’s womb, the little life-germs rise, Pushing and pulsing upward to the light; […]

Learn Learn, learn, learn,– Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep; Not just a place wherein to laugh and weep, To eat and drink, […]

Looking In The Fire The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass. The wind sighs in […]

Lord Nevil’s Advice “Friend,” quoth Lord Nevil, “thou art young To face the world, and thou art blind To subtle ways of womankind; The meshes thou […]

Mates It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, First learned the art of war, And–since […]