Poems

Demeter and Persephone Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies All night across the darkness, and at dawn Falls on the threshold of her native land, […]

Duet 1. Is it the wind of the dawn that I hear in the pine overhead? 2. No; but the voice of the deep as it […]

Early Spring Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plowed hills With loving blue; The blackbirds have their wills, The throstles […]

Enoch Arden Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow […]

Far-Far-Away (For Music) What sight so lured him thro’ the fields he knew As where earth’s green stole into heaven’s own hue, Far–far–away? What sound was […]

Fatima O LOVE, Love, Love! O withering might! O sun, that from thy noonday height Shudderest when I strain my sight, Throbbing thro’ all thy heat […]

Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my […]

Gareth And Lynette The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent, And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. A slender-shafted Pine Lost […]

Geraint And Enid O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking […]

Guinevere Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save a little maid, A novice: […]