Poems

The Plaint Musicians O Musicians: Heartsease Heartsease: an you will have me live play heartsease. Light wind in the small green leaves Play, oh play, my […]

The Pledge White doves of Cytherea, by your quest Across the blue Heaven’s bluest highest air, And by your certain homing to Love’s breast, Still to […]

The Proud Poet Great Kings were dust and all their deeds forgot Did my harp’s taut and burnished strings stand mute; The fragrance of dead ladies’ […]

The Saying of Il Haboul Guardian Of The Treasure Of Solomon And Keeper Of the Prophet’s Armour My tent A vapour that The wind dispels and […]

The Source Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, –mocking And sweet.

The Sun-Dial Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, By their shadows.

The Warning. JUST now, Out of the strange Still dusk . . . as strange, as still . . . A white moth flew . . […]

The Witch When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, Learned all his dreaming […]

Thou art not friendly sleep that hath delayed The long night through and still at dawn doth keep Estranged from eyes that very weariness Makes blind […]

To A Hermit Thrush Art thou Not kin to him Who loved Mark’s wife and both Died for it? O, thou harper in Green woods?