Poems

Plus Intra Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure, Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure Soul within sense. From depth […]

Plus Ultra Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see not thence the goal […]

Prelude Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers and tears, From heart and […]

Prelude – Lohengrin Love, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, Love, heard from […]

Prelude – Tristan And Isolde Fate, out of the deep sea’s gloom, When a man’s heart’s pride grows great, And nought seems now to foredoom Fate, […]

Quia Multum Amavit Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these eighteen years hast […]

Recollections I. Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers, Pass, and the flames […]

Siena Inside this northern summer’s fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The green veiled air is full […]

Sleep Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover Wails that sorrow should always keep Watch, nor see in the gloom above her Sleep, Down, […]

Sorrow SORROW, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow. One thought lies […]