Poems

The Promise of the Morning Star Thou father of the children of my brain By thee engendered in my willing heart, How can I thank thee […]

The Road to Avignon A Minstrel stands on a marble stair, Blown by the bright wind, debonair; Below lies the sea, a sapphire floor, Above on […]

The Starling Forever the impenetrable wall Of self confines my poor rebellious soul, I never see the towering white clouds roll Before a sturdy wind, save […]

The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And […]

The Trout Naughty little speckled trout, Can’t I coax you to come out? Is it such great fun to play In the water every day? Do […]

The Way At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound between hedges of roses […]

The Wind He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea, He steals the down from the honeybee, He makes the forest trees rustle and […]

To a Friend I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake […]

To an Early Daffodil Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring! Thou herald of rich Summer’s myriad flowers! The climbing sun with new recovered powers Does warm […]

To Elizabeth Ward Perkins Dear Bessie, would my tired rhyme Had force to rise from apathy, And shaking off its lethargy Ring word-tones like a Christmas […]