Poems

Sonnet XIV- IT may be for the world of weeds and tares And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty’s rose That oft as Fortune from ten […]

Sonnet XV- Above the ruin of God’s holy place, Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, Whose hands, when men had craved substantial food, Gave not, nor […]

Sonnet XVI: Who shall Invoke her Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest, With single rites the common debt to pay? On some green […]

Tezcotzinco Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold, Thou wert sometime the garden of a king. The birds have sought a lovelier place to […]

The Aisne We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France’s early gain, Big with wrecked promise and abandoned hopes, Broke in […]

The Bayadere- Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon’s rays More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid By the light veils they burned and […]

The Deserted Garden- I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on either hand And […]

The Hosts Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life paltry and mean and small, In their new dedication charged With something heightened, […]

The Need to Love The need to love that all the stars obey Entered my heart and banished all beside. Bare were the gardens where I […]

The Nympholept There was a boy — not above childish fears — With steps that faltered now and straining ears, Timid, irresolute, yet dauntless still, Who […]