Poems

In the Depths It is not sweet content, be sure, That moves the nobler Muse to song, Yet when could truth come whole and pure From […]

Noli Aemulari In controversial foul impureness The peace that is thy light to thee Quench not: in faith and inner sureness Possess thy soul and let […]

Perchè Pensa? Pensando s’Invecchia To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our […]

Qua Cursum Ventus As ships, becalm’d at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce […]

Say not the Struggle nought Availeth Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not nor faileth, And […]

The Latest Decalogue Thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipp’d, except the currency: […]

The Thread of Truth Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being’s parti-coloured […]

There Is No God, the Wicked Sayeth “There is no God,” the wicked saith, “And truly it’s a blessing, For what He might have done with […]

Through a Glass Darkly What we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear; […]

Where Lies The Land To Which The Ship Would Go Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her […]