Poems

To an Unfaithful Lover What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?

To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality Bidding Him Look Nearer Home. Too far afield thy search. Nay, turn. Nay, turn. At thine own elbow potent Memory […]

To the dead in the grave-yard under my window How can you lie so still? All day I watch And never a blade of all the […]

Trapped Well and If day on day Follows and weary year On year . . . and ever days and years . . . Well?

Triad. THESE be three silent things: The falling snow . . . the hour Before the dawn . . . the mouth of one Just dead.

Vendor’s Song My songs to sell, sweet maid! I pray you buy. Here’s one will win a lady’s tears, Here’s one will make her gay, Here’s […]

Warning to the Mighty Ere the horne’d owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great […]

White Rose Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart’s Shed blood.

Winter The cold With steely clutch Grips all the land. .alack The little people in the hills Will die!

You Nor I Nor Nobody Knows You nor I nor nobody knows Where our daily-taken breath Vanisheth and vanisheth: Where our lost breath’s flying goes You […]