Poems

Mirage Is it a will-o’-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking, That our horizon wears so strange a hue? Is it but one more dream, or are we […]

On Australian Hills Earth, outward tuning on her path in space This pensive southern face, Swathing its smile and shine In that soft veil that day […]

Outcast Perchance for dear Life’s sake–and life is sweet– When work had failed and roads were deep in snow, And this meant food and fire, she […]

Peace The red-rose flush fades slowly in the west. The golden water, basking in the light, Pales to clear amber and to silver white. The velvet […]

Practising The Anthem A summer wind blows through the open porch, And, ‘neath the rustling eaves, A summer light of moonrise, calm and pale, Shines through […]

Recollection A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping A silken mantle o’er its jagged sides; And silvery, seething waters softly lapping Through gulfs and channels hollow’d […]

Seed-Time And Harvest “Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest […]

Sic Vos Non Vobis Ye, that the untrod paths have braved, With heart and brain unbound; Who ask not that your souls be saved, But that […]

The Baptistry One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature’s rest, As she lay sleeping, with her hair unbound, Holding […]

The Candle Of The Lord “The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.” “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are […]