Poems

In Front of the Landscape Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions, Dolorous and dear, Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters […]

In Tenebris I”Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum.” — Ps. ci. Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: Twice no one dies. […]

In The Moonlight “O lonely workman, standing there In a dream, why do you stare and stare At her grave, as no other grave where there?” […]

In The Old Theatre, Fiesole. I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline Where Rome and dim Etruria interjoin, Till came a child who showed an […]

In The Vaulted Way In the vaulted way, where the passage turned To the shadowy corner that none could see, You paused for our parting, – […]

In Time Of I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they […]

In Vision I Roamed IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan, As though with an awed sense […]

Last Words to a Dumb Friend Pet was never mourned as you, Purrer of the spotless hue, Plumy tail, and wistful gaze While you humoured our […]

Leipzig “Old Norbert with the flat blue cap– A German said to be– Why let your pipe die on your lap, Your eyes blink absently?”– –“Ah!… […]

Let Me Enjoy I Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight. […]