Poems

The Litany Of Nations CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine after-birth, We […]

The Lute And The Lyre Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root, Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire, Takes […]

The Oblation Ask nothing more of me, sweet; All I can give you I give. Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid […]

The Pilgrims Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass Singing? and is it for sorrow of that which was That ye sing sadly, […]

The Roundel A roundel is wrought as a ring or a starbright sphere, With craft of delight and with cunning of sound unsought, That the heart […]

The Song Of The Standard Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy sands, […]

The Way Of The Wind The wind’s way in the deep sky’s hollow None may measure, as none can say How the heart in her shows […]

The Year of the Rose From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An hour-glass […]

Three Faces I.–VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free, A tall […]

Time And Life I. Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame Ere the change of things and […]