Poems

The Old Lowe House, Staten Island Another prospect pleased the builder’s eye, And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes) Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes When first […]

The Rendezvous He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the cathedral-tower, Fall the faint […]

The Sultan’s Palace My spirit only lived to look on Beauty’s face, As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright; As in their flesh […]

The Torture of Cuauhtemoc Their strength had fed on this when Death’s white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the jungle’s ferny […]

The Wanderer- To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires and architraves To watch […]

Tithonus So when the verdure of his life was shed, With all the grace of ripened manlihead, And on his locks, but now so lovable, Old […]

To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o’er. The world takes sides: whether for impious […]

Translations: Dante – Inferno, Canto XXVI Florence, rejoice! For thou o’er land and sea So spread’st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no […]

Virginibus Puerisque… I care not that one listen if he lives For aught but life’s romance, nor puts above All life’s necessities the need to love, […]

Vivien Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled Clothed her as sunshine clothes the summer world. Her […]