Poems

Sestet SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON Wouldst thou know the knightly clash of steel on steel? Or list the throstle singing loud […]

Sleep When to oft sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark […]

Song from the Persian AH, sad are they who know not love, But, far from passion’s tears and smiles, Drift down a moonless sea, beyond The […]

Tennyson I Shakespeare and Milton–what third blazoned name Shall lips of after-ages link to these? His who, beside the wide encircling seas, Was England’s voice, her […]

Thalia “A MIDDLE-AGED LYRICAL POET IS SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING FINAL LEAVE OF THE MUSE OF COMEDY. SHE HAS BROUGHT HIM HIS HAT AND GLOVES, AND […]

The Last Caesar I Now there was one who came in later days To play at Emperor: in the dead of night Stole crown and sceptre, […]

The Letter EDWARD ROWLAND SILL, DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1887 I held his letter in my hand, And even while I read The lightning flashed across the […]

The Lorelei Yonder we see it from the steamer’s deck, The haunted Mountain of the Lorelei — The hanging crags sharp-cut against a sky Clear as […]

The Menu I beg you come to-night and dine. A welcome waits you, and sound wine– The Roederer chilly to a charm, As Juno’s breath the […]

The Poets When this young Land has reached its wrinkled prime, And we are gone and all our songs are done, And naught is left unchanged […]