Poems

Voices of Earth We have not heard the music of the spheres, The song of star to star, but there are sounds More deep than human […]

War By the Nile, the sacred river, I can see the captive hordes, Strain beneath the lash and quiver At the long papyrus cords, While in […]

We too shall Sleep Not, not for thee, Belovèd child, the burning grasp of life Shall bruise the tender soul. The noise, and strife, And clamor […]

Winter Evening To-night the very horses springing by Toss gold from whitened nostrils. In a dream The streets that narrow to the westward gleam Like rows […]

Winter Uplands The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek, The loneliness of this forsaken ground, The long white drift upon whose powdered peak I […]

Winter-Solitude I saw the city’s towers on a luminous pale-gray sky; Beyond them a hill of the softest mistiest green, With naught but frost and the […]

An Eternity There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there’s now, and now, And the wind in the grass. Days […]

Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit Dumb As old medallions to the thumb Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of […]

Baccalaureate A year or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of Angelo, Darwin on man, Vergilius […]

Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is for: Enough for her devotions that things are […]