Poems

Fatigue Stupefy my heart to every day’s monotony, Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity, Bow down […]

Fragment What is poetry? Is it a mosaic Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought Into a pattern? Rather glass that’s taught By patient labor any […]

Francis II, King of Naples Written after reading Trevelyan’s “Garibaldi and the making of Italy” Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race of […]

Frankincense and Myrrh My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with […]

Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds, And the sun lies warm and still on the western sides […]

Fringed Gentians Near where I live there is a lake As blue as blue can be, winds make It dance as they go blowing by. I […]

From One Who Stays How empty seems the town now you are gone! A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls Hide nothing to desire; sunshine […]

Generations You are like the stem Of a young beech-tree, Straight and swaying, Breaking out in golden leaves. Your walk is like the blowing of a […]

Hero-Worship A face seen passing in a crowded street, A voice heard singing music, large and free; And from that moment life is changed, and we […]

Hoar-Frost In the cloud gray mornings I heard the herons Flying And when I came into my garden, My silken outer-garment Trailed over withered leaves. A […]