Poems

Ah! Yet Consider it Again! “Old things need not be therefore true,” O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, […]

All Is Well Whate’er you dream, with doubt possessed, Keep, keep it snug within your breast, And lay you down and take your rest; And when […]

Amours de Voyage, Canto I Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter earth, […]

Amours de Voyage, Canto II Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? Does […]

Amours de Voyage, Canto III Yet to the wondrous St. Peter’s, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican […]

Amours de Voyage, Canto IV Eastward, or Northward, or West? I wander and ask as I wander; Weary, yet eager and sure, Where shall I come […]

Amours de Voyage, Canto V There is a city, upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno, Under Fiesole’s heights,–thither are we to return? There is […]

How In All Wonder… How in all wonder Columbus got over, That is a marvel to me, I protest, Cabot, and Raleigh too, that well-read rover, […]

In a Lecture Room Away, haunt thou me not, Thou vain Philosophy! Little hast thou bestead, Save to perplex the head, And leave the spirit dead. […]

In a London Square Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer […]