Poems

To A Soldier In Hospital Courage came to you with your boyhood’s grace Of ardent life and limb. Each day new dangers steeled you to the […]

Everyday Characters (excerpt) Some years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known […]

Fairy Song HE has conn’d the lesson now; He has read the book of pain: There are furrows on his brow; I must make it smooth […]

The Newly-Wedded NOW the rite is duly done, Now the word is spoken, And the spell has made us one Which may ne’er be broken; Rest […]

The Vicar SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turn’d our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as […]

A Farmer Remembers Lincoln LINCOLN?— Well, I was in the old Second Maine, The first regiment in Washington from the Pine Tree State. Of course I […]

Lest I Learn Lest I learn, with clearer sight, Such beauty cannot be — Tie a bandage, pull it tight, Blind me, I would not see! […]

Train-Mates Outside hove Shasta, snowy height on height, A glory; but a negligible sight, For you had often seen a mountain-peak But not my paper. So […]

Wistaria Clouds dream and disappear; Waters dream in a rainbow and are gone; Fire-dreams change with the sun Or when a poppy closes; But now is […]

A Curse for Kings A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may it end […]