Poems

Ballades IV – Of Life SAY, fair maids, maying In gardens green, In deep dells straying, What end hath been Two Mays between Of the flowers […]

Ballades V – Of His Choice of a Sepulchre HERE I ’d come when weariest! Here the breast Of the Windberg’s tufted over Deep with bracken; […]

Les Roses de Sâdi This morning I vowed I would bring thee my roses, They were thrust in the band that my bodice encloses; But the […]

Melville and Coghill – The Place Of The Little Hand DEAD, with their eyes to the foe, Dead, with the foe at their feet; Under the […]

On Calais Sands ON Calais Sands the gray began, Then rosy red above they gray; The morn with many a scarlet van Leaped, and the world […]

Romance MY Love dwelt in a Northern land. A gray tower in a forest green Was hers, and far on either hand The long wash of […]

San Terenzo MID April seemed like some November day, When through the glassy waters, dull as lead, Our boat, like shadowy barques that bear the dead, […]

Scythe Song MOWERS, weary and brown, and blithe, What is the word methinks ye know, Endless over-word that the Scythe Sings to the blades of the […]

The Odyssey AS one that for a weary space has lain Lull’d by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of […]

Three Portraits of Prince Charles 1731 BEAUTIFUL face of a child, Lighted with laughter and glee, Mirthful, and tender, and wild, My heart is heavy for […]