Poems

A Leave-taking Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, for singing-time is over, […]

A Marching Song We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons are; The light […]

A Match If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown […]

A New Year’s Message To Joseph Mazzini Send the stars light, but send not love to me. Shelley. I Out of the dawning heavens that hear […]

A Night-Piece By Millet Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of […]

A Ninth Birthday Three times thrice hath winter’s rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose praises love would […]

A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning I1. The clearest eyes in all the world they read . With sense more keen and […]

A Singing Lesson Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought In a song can be good […]

A Swimmer’s Dream Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love’s own self was the […]

A Watch In The Night Watchman, what of the night? – Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. Only […]