Poems

What Of The Night? To you, who look below, Where little candles glow — Who listen in a narrow street, Confused with noise of passing feet […]

Prevision Oh, days of beauty standing veiled apart, With dreamy skies and tender, tremulous air, In this rich Indian summer of the heart Well may the […]

Unguarded The Mistress of the Roses Is haply far away, And through her garden closes What strange intruders stray. See on its rustic spindles The sundrop’s […]

My Son Here is his little cambric frock That I laid by in lavender so sweet, And here his tiny shoe and sock I made with […]

A Basket of Flowers A Basket of Flowers from Dawn to Dusk Dawn On skies still and starlit White lustres take hold, And grey flushes scarlet, […]

A Dedication They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, And songless bright birds; […]

A Fragment They say that poison-sprinkled flowers Are sweeter in perfume Than when, untouched by deadly dew, They glowed in early bloom. They say that men […]

A Hunting Song Here’s a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord, If his heart be true, I care not what his pocket may […]

A Legend of Madrid A Legend of Madrid [Translated from the Spanish] Francesca. Crush’d and throng’d are all the places In our amphitheatre, ‘Midst a sea […]

A Song of Autumn ‘WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, […]