Poems

Egypt Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes; I seem in some waste solitude to stand Once ruled of Cheops; upon either hand A dark illimitable […]

Eidolons Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on lone morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside are the Night’s […]

Ellen Terry in the Merchant of Venice As there she lives and moves upon the scene, So lived and moved this radiant womanhood In Shakespeare’s vision; […]

Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme Enamored architect of airy rhyme, Build as thou wilt, heed not what each man says: Good souls, but innocent of dreamers’ […]

England While men pay reverence to mighty things, They must revere thee, thou blue-cinctured isle Of England–not to-day, but this long while In front of nations, […]

Even This Will Pass Away Touched with the delicate green of early May, Or later, when the rose uplifts her face, The world hangs glittering in […]

Fredericksburg The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed, And on the churchyard by the road, I know It falls as white and noiselessly as snow. . […]

Guilielmus Rex The folk who lived in Shakespeare’s day And saw that gentle figure pass By London Bridge, his frequent way– They little knew what man […]

Henry Howard Brownell They never crowned him, never dreamed his worth, And let him go unlaurelled to the grave: Hereafter there are guerdons for the brave, […]

Heredity A soldier of the Cromwell stamp, With sword and psalm-book by his side, At home alike in church and camp: Austere he lived, and smileless […]