Poems

Northern Farmer: New Style Dosn’t thou ‘ear my ‘erse’s legs, as they canters awaäy? Proputty, proputty, proputty–that’s what I ‘ears ’em saäy. Proputty, proputty, proputty–Sam, thou’s […]

Northern Farmer: Old Style Wheer ‘asta beän saw long and meä liggin’ ‘ere aloän? Noorse? thoort nowt o’ a noorse: whoy, Doctor’s abeän an’ agoän; Says […]

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin […]

O Beauty, Passing Beauty! O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet! How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs? I only ask to sit beside […]

O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! O, were I loved as I desire to be! What is there in the great sphere of […]

Ode to Memory I. THOU who stealest fire, From the fountains of the past, To glorify the present, oh, haste, Visit my low desire! Strengthen me, […]

Of Old Sat Freedom Of old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights: She heard the […]

Pelleas And Ettarre King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall at old Caerleon, […]

Princess: A Medley: The splendour falls on castle walls The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across […]

Recollection of the Arabian Nights WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow’d back […]