Poems

Gipsy Love The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it’s O to be off and away from the town With […]

In Fountain Court The fountain murmuring of sleep, A drowsy tune; The flickering green of leaves that keep The light of June; Peace, through a slumbering […]

In the Stalls My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see myself upon the […]

Javanese Dancers Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums, Dull, shrill, continuous, disquieting: And now the stealthy dancer comes Undulantly with cat-like steps that cling; […]

Kisses Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird’s […]

Love and Sleep I have laid sorrow to sleep; Love sleeps. She who oft made me weep Now weeps. I loved, and have forgot, And yet […]

The Andante of Snakes They weave a slow andante as in sleep, Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white; With blue and lidless eyes at watch they […]

The Broken Tryst That day a fire was in my blood; I could have sung: joy wrapt me round; The men I met seemed all so […]

The Fisher’s Widow The boats go out and the boats come in Under the wintry sky; And the rain and foam are white in the wind, […]

The Loom of Dreams I broider the world upon a loom, I broider with dreams my tapestry; Here in a little lonely room I am master […]