Poems

Heredity I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place […]

How Great My Grief How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! – Have the slow years […]

I Have Lived With Shades I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft I […]

I Look Into My Glass I LOOK into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, “Would God it came to pass My heart had […]

I Need Not Go I need not go Through sleet and snow To where I know She waits for me; She will wait me there Till […]

I Said to Love. I said to Love, “It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All else above; […]

In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury THE years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze With one who kindled gayly Love’s fitful ecstasies! But despite […]

In a Museum I Here’s the mould of a musical bird long passed from light, Which over the earth before man came was winging; There’s a […]

In a Wood Pale beech and pine-tree blue, Set in one clay, Bough to bough cannot you Bide out your day? When the rains skim and […]

In A Wook PALE beech and pine-tree blue, Set in one clay, Bough to bough cannot you Bide out your day? When the rains skim and […]