Poems

To The Queen O loyal to the royal in thyself, And loyal to thy land, as this to thee– Bear witness, that rememberable day, When, pale […]

To Virgil Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil’s Death Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion’s lofty temples robed in […]

Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal […]

You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the […]

Œnone There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, […]

“In The Cool Of The Evening” In the cool of the evening, when the low sweet whispers waken, When the laborers turn them homeward, and the […]

“When Spring Comes Back To England” When Spring comes back to England And crowns her brows with May, Round the merry moonlit world She goes the […]

A Prayer in Time of War The war will change many things in art and life, and among them, it is to be hoped, many of […]

A Song of Sherwood Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake? Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake, Shadows of the dappled deer, […]

Art, The Herald I Yes! Beauty still rebels! Our dreams like clouds disperse: She dwells In agate, marble, verse. No false constraint be thine! But, for […]