Poems

Southern Mansion Poplars are standing there still as death And ghosts of dead men Meet their ladies walking Two by two beneath the shade And standing […]

THE DAY-BREAKERS We are not come to wage a strife With swords upon this hill, It is not wise to waste the life Against a stubborn […]

Strictly Germ-proof The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up; They looked upon the Creature with a […]

A Pair Of Lovers In The Street A PAIR of lovers in the street! I dare not mock: with reverence meet My unforgetting heart I cheat. […]

A Spring Sonnet Last night beneath the mockery of the moon I heard the sudden startled whisperings Of wakened birds settling their restless wings; The North-east […]

Bayswater.W. About me leagues of houses lie, Above me, grim and straight and high, They climb; the terraces lean up Like long grey reefs against the […]

Bond Street Its glittering emptiness it brings — This little lane of useless things. Here peering envy arm in arm With ennui takes her saunterings. Here […]

China 1899 She lies, a grave disdain all her defence, Too imperturbable for scorn. She hears Only the murmur of the flowing years That thunder slowly […]

Civilization One moment mankind rides the crested wave, A moment glorious, beyond recall; And then the wave, with slow and massive fall, Obliterates the beauty that […]

Fleet Street BENEATH this narrow jostling street, Unruffled by the noise of feet, Like a slow organ-note I hear The pulses of the great world beat. […]