Poems

Sonnet IV- Up at his attic sill the South wind came And days of sun and storm but never peace. Along the town’s tumultuous arteries He […]

Sonnet IX- Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded blossoms part When Spring […]

Sonnet V- A tide of beauty with returning May Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume Odors endeared; down avenues in bloom The chestnut-trees with […]

Sonnet VI- Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs, The ponderous undertones of ‘bus and tram, A garret and a glimpse across the roofs […]

Sonnet VII- To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound Whose stations Beauty’s bright examples are, As of a silken city famed afar Over the sands […]

Sonnet VIII- Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like […]

Sonnet X- A splendor, flamelike, born to be pursued, With palms extent for amorous charity And eyes incensed with love for all they see, A wonder […]

Sonnet XI- When among creatures fair of countenance Love comes enformed in such proud character, So far as other beauty yields to her, So far the […]

Sonnet XII- Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge, To a slow river at whose silent verge […]

Sonnet XIII- I fancied, while you stood conversing there, Superb, in every attitude a queen, Her ermine thus Boadicea bare, So moved amid the multitude Faustine. […]