Poems

Epilogue Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and eyes Strain eastward till the […]

Eros Eros, from rest in isles far-famed, With rising Anthesterion rose, And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros. The sea one pearl, the shore one rose, All […]

Etude Realiste A Baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel’s lips to kiss, we think, A baby’s feet. Like rose-hued […]

Eurydice – To Victor Hugo Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries, And hardly for the storm and ruin shed Can even thine eyes […]

First Footsteps A little way, more soft and sweet Than fields aflower with May, A babe’s feet, venturing, scarce complete A little way. Eyes full of […]

Four Songs Of Four Seasons I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: “Shut out […]

Genesis In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the blind first hour of time […]

Had I Wist Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Light and loud through sundawn and the dew’s bright trust, How the […]

Hertha I am that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal and whole; God changes, and […]

Hymn Of Man In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ears of the […]