Poems

Super Flumina Babylonis By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and slept, And wouldst […]

Tenebrae At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time are at height, In a […]

The Complaint of Lisa There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not one upon […]

The Death Of Richard Wagner Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no lips […]

The Eve Of Revolution The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, With breasts […]

The Garden of Proserpine Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds’ and spent waves’ riot In doubtful dreams of dreams; […]

The Garden of Prosperine Here, where the world is quiet, Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds’ and spent waves’ riot In doubtful dreams of dreams; […]

The Halt Before Rome–September 1867 Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light was […]

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is: Surely this is not that: but that […]

The Last Oracle eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai lalon udor. Years […]