Poems

The Soldier’s Grave ‘Twas long ago, in the summer-time, On a day as sad as this, That I laid my babe in its father’s arms, And […]

The Vain Question Why should we court the storms that rave and rend, Safe at our household hearth? Why, starved and naked, without home or friend, […]

The Virgin Martyr Every wild she-bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather, But a captive woman, made for love — no mate, no […]

The Watchman. Through jewelled windows in the walls The tender daylight smiles; Majestic music swells and falls Adown the stately aisles; Shadows of carven roof and […]

The Winged Mariners Through the wild night, the silence and the dark, Through league on league of the uncharted sky, Lonelier than dove of fable from […]

Tired O for wings! that I might soar A little way above the floor, A little way beyond the roar– A little nearer to the sky! […]

To-morrow The lighthouse shines across the sea; The homing fieldfares sing for glee: “Behold the shore!” Alas for shattered wing and breast! The lighthouse breakers make […]

Unstrung My skies were blue, and my sun was bright, And, with fingers tender and strong and light, He woke up the music that slept before– […]

Vows Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend To constant passion and a life-long trust. They will desert thee, if indeed they must. How […]

Wasted Each day another soldier in the van, Each day a new young worker in the fields, And every day more plenteous harvest-yields From human toil, […]