Poems

The Old Women They pass upon their old, tremulous feet, Creeping with little satchels down the street, And they remember, many years ago, Passing that way […]

You Remain As a perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will […]

After a Dolmetsch Concert Out of the conquered Past Unravishable Beauty; Hearts that are dew and dust Rebuking the dream of Death; Flower o’ the clay […]

Agamede’s Song Grow, grow, thou little tree, His body at the roots of thee; Since last year’s loveliness in death The living beauty nourisheth. Bloom, bloom, […]

Euchenor Chorus (From “The City”) OF old it went forth to Euchenor, pronounced of his sire– Reluctant, impelled by the god’s unescapable fire– To choose for […]

Indra DOWN to the sand-covered earth. Straw from the harvested fields soiled our feet; Dust from the high-roads, Smoke from the cities, Foul-smelling breaths, Fumes from […]

We Waves WE, we waves, That are rocking the winds To rest– Green cradles, we waves! Wet are we, and salty; Leap like flames of fire– […]

Trembling Before Thine Awful Throne Trembling before Thine awful throne, O Lord, in dust my sins I own; Justice and mercy for my life Contend; O […]

A Debtor to Mercy Alone A debtor to mercy alone, of covenant mercy I sing; Nor fear, with Thy righteousness on, my person and off’ring to […]

Desiring to Be Given up to God That my heart was right with thee, And lov’d thee with a perfect love! O that my Lord would […]