Poems

Is Life Worth Living? IS life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right, Wail of the weak against the strong, Or tyranny […]

Love’s Blindness Now do I know that Love is blind, for I Can see no beauty on this beauteous earth, No life, no light, no hopefulness, […]

Love’s Trinity SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name, Are not in love divisible and distinct, But each with each inseparably link’d. One is not […]

Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song THE CRAB, the bullace, and the sloe, They burgeon in the Spring; And, when the west wind melts […]

Songs From “Prince Lucifer” II – Mother-Song WHITE little hands! Pink little feet! Dimpled all over, Sweet, sweet, sweet! What dost thou wail for? The unknown? […]

The Haymakers’ Song HERE’S to him that grows it, Drink, lads, drink! That lays it in and mows it, Clink, jugs, clink! To him that mows […]

In Old Tennessee At my post I am standing, tis a dark dreary night, This scenery around me shut out from my sight, With my gun […]

Meditations of a Hindu Prince ALL the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never have trod, Are the people eternally seeking for the signs […]

Sîva Mors Janua Vitae. I am the God of the sensuous fire That moulds all Nature in forms divine; The symbols of death and of man’s […]

Studies at Delhi, 1876 I.–The Hindu Ascetic. Here as I sit by the Jumna bank, Watching the flow of the sacred stream, Pass me the legions, […]