Poems

The Three Brothers Budrys Doughty Budrys the old, Lithuanian bold, He has summoned his lusty sons three. “Your chargers stand idle, now saddle and bridle And […]

Twardowski’s Wife Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter, Reverly and wild to-do – They shake the inn from floor to rafter With huzzahing and halloo. There Twardowski heads […]

Adventure Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly… Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!

Amaze I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.

Angelique Have you seen Angelique, What way she went? A white robe she wore; A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen […]

Anguish Keep thou Thy tearless watch All night but when blue-dawn Breathes on the silver moon, then weep! Then weep!

Arbutus Not spring’s Thou art, but hers, Most cool, most virginal, Winter’s, with thy faint breath, thy snows Rose-tinged.

As I Went As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying — […]

Aubade The morning is new and the skies are fresh washed with light, The day cometh in with the sun and I awake laughing. Hasten, belov`ed! […]

Autumn Fugitive, wistful, Pausing at edge of her going, Autumn, the maiden, turns, Leans to the earth with ineffable Gesture. Ah, more than Spring’s skies her […]