Poems

The Bard I. “Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!Ê Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho’ fanned by Conquest’s crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. […]

The Curse Upon Edward WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward’s race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell […]

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode (FROM THE NORSE TONGUE) Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare.) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles […]

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode I. Awake, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon’s harmonious springs A thousand […]

A Broken Appointment You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. Yet less for loss of your dear presence there Than […]

A Christmas Ghost Story. South of the Line, inland from far Durban, A mouldering soldier lies–your countryman. Awry and doubled up are his gray bones, And […]

A Commonplace Day. The day is turning ghost, And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively, To join the anonymous host Of those that throng […]

A Confession To A Friend in Trouble YOUR troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even […]

A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when […]

A Meeting With Despair AS evening shaped I found me on a moor Which sight could scarce sustain: The black lean land, of featureless contour, Was […]