Poems

I have a Rendezvous with Death I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill […]

I Loved… I loved illustrious cities and the crowds That eddy through their incandescent nights. I loved remote horizons with far clouds Girdled, and fringed about […]

Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death And stood beside the cavern through whose doors Enter the […]

Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature’s fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, Like […]

Kyrenaikos Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; Twine yellow roses for the drinker’s crown; Let music reach […]

La Nue Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves of blissful sound Rose […]

Liebestod I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an outcast exiled far From the […]

Lyonesse In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say: Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess, And fertile lowlands lengthening far away, In Lyonesse. Came a term […]

Maktoob A shell surprised our post one day And killed a comrade at my side. My heart was sick to see the way He suffered as […]

Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When–with sweet flowers of […]