Poems

Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips I One by one they go Into the unknown dark– Star-lit brows of the brave, Voices that drew men’s […]

No Songs in Winter The sky is gray as gray may be, There is no bird upon the bough, There is no leaf on vine or […]

On Reading William Watson’s Sonnet Entitled The Purple East Restless the Northern Bear amid his snows Crouched by the Neva; menacing is France, That sees the […]

Outward Bound I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square And carven portals of the silent street, And wander on with listless, vagrant feet Through seaward-leading alleys, […]

Palinode Who is Lydia, pray, and who Is Hypatia? Softly, dear, Let me breathe it in your ear– They are you, and only you. And those […]

Pauline Pavlovna SCENE: St. Petersburg. Period: the present time. A ballroom in the winter palace of the prince—. The ladies in character costumes and masks. The […]

Pillared Arch and Sculptured Tower Pillared arch and sculptured tower Of Ilium have had their hour; The dust of many a king is blown On the […]

Pursuit and Possession When I behold what pleasure is pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is; Then mark how full possession falls from this, How […]

Reminiscence Though I am native to this frozen zone That half the twelvemonth torpid lies, or dead; Though the cold azure arching overhead And the Atlantic’s […]

Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth That face which no man ever saw And from his memory banished quite, With eyes in which are Hamlet’s awe And […]