Poems

A Sign-Seeker I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, And hear the monotonous […]

A Spot In years defaced and lost, Two sat here, transport-tossed, Lit by a living love The wilted world knew nothing of: Scared momently By gaingivings, […]

A Thunderstorm in Town She wore a ‘terra-cotta’ dress, And we stayed, because of the pelting storm, Within the hansom’s dry recess, Though the horse had […]

A Wasted Illness Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To dire distress. And […]

A Wife in London December 1899 I She sits in the tawny vapour That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled, Behind whose webby fold-on-fold Like a waning […]

Additions The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s THEY had long met o’ Zundays–her true love and she– And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi’ […]

After Schiller Knight, a true sister-love This heart retains; Ask me no other love, That way lie pains! Calm must I view thee come, Calm see […]

After the Visit Come again to the place Where your presence was as a leaf that skims Down a drouthy way whose ascent bedims The bloom […]

Afterwards When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun […]

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? “Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? — planting rue?” — “No: yesterday he went to […]