Poems

Snow Look up . . . From bleakening hills Blows down the light, first breath Of wintry wind . . . look up, and scent The […]

Song I make my shroud but no one knows, So shimmering fine it is and fair, With stitches set in even rows. I make my shroud […]

Susanna and the elders “WHY do You thus devise Evil against her?” “For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.”

Tears. The immemorial grief of all years Burdes my heart sorely, and the years Of slow eternal crying stain my cheeks. Forever and forever my soul […]

The Companions Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be With me through Eternity, Such […]

The Crucifixion And the centurion who stood by said: Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go There is a […]

The Cry of the Nymph to Eros Hear thou my lamentation, Eros, Aphrodite’s son! My heart is broken and my days are done. Where the woods […]

The Death of Holofernes Israel! Wake! Be gay! Thine enemy is brought low — Thy foe slain — by the hand, by the hand Of a […]

The Elgin Marbles The clustered Gods, the marching lads, The mighty-limbed, deep-bosomed Three, The shimmering grey-gold London fog . . . I wish that Phidias could […]

The Entombment In a cave born (Mary said) In a cave is My Son buried