Poems

Dora SHE knelt upon her brother’s grave, My little girl of six years old– He used to be so good and brave, The sweetest lamb of […]

I bended unto me a Bough I bended unto me a bough of May, That I might see and smell: It bore it in a sort […]

Ibant Obscuræ To-night I saw three maidens on the beach, Dark-robed descending to the sea, So slow, so silent of all speech, And visible to me […]

Jessie WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress’d Twin babes upon His knees– Twin […]

Land, Ho! I know ’tis but a loom of land, Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice, I know I cannot hear His voice […]

My Garden A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot– The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends […]

Opifex As I was carving images from clouds, And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes Pressed from the pulp of dreams, one comes, and cries:– “Forbear!” […]

Pain The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; ’Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the larger state, Though but in […]

Risus Dei Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, Their white feet twinkling […]

Salve! TO live within a cave–it is most good; But, if God make a day, And some one come, and say, ‘Lo! I have gather’d faggots […]