Poems

Faded pictures NLY two patient eyes to stare Out of the canvas. All the rest– The warm green gown, the small hands pressed Light in the […]

Gloucester Moors A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the flishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And the woods and farms […]

On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines Streets of the roaring town, Hush for him, hus, be still! He comes, who was stricken down Doing the […]

The bracelet of grass HE opal heart of afternoon Was clouding on to throbs of storm, Ashen within the ardent west The lips of thunder muttered […]

The golden journey LL day he drowses by the sail With dreams of her, and all night long The broken waters are at song Of how […]

The Quarry Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea I met a sacred elephant, snow-white. Upon his back a huge pagoda towered Full of […]

Love and Jealousy How much are they deceived who vainly strive, By jealous fears, to keep our flames alive? Love’s like a torch, which if secured […]

No Images She does not know Her beauty, She thinks her brown body Has no glory. If she could dance Naked Under palm trees And see […]

Albion’s England (excerpt) The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,– Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,– King Edel and king […]

The Violet O faint, delicious, spring-time violet! Thine odor, like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory’s wards to let A thought of sorrow free. The breath […]