Poems

Lines BEFORE we part to alien thoughts and aims, Permit the one brief word the occasion claims; –When mumming and grave projects are allied, Perhaps an […]

Lines On The Loss Of The In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches […]

Men Who March Away Song of the Soldiers What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is […]

Middle-Age Enthusiasms We passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: “Go to, the hour Is apt!”–and joined the song; And, kindling, laughed […]

Midnight on the Great Western In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy, And the roof-lamp’s oily flame Played down on his listless form and face, […]

Mismet He was leaning by a face, He was looking into eyes, And he knew a trysting-place, And he heard seductive sighs; But the face, And […]

Moments of Vision That mirror Which makes of men a transparency, Who holds that mirror And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see Of you and […]

My Cicely “Alive?”–And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory to me. “She lives, […]

My spirit will not haunt the mound My spirit will not haunt the mound Above my breast, But travel, memory-possessed, To where my tremulous being found […]

Nature’s Questioning WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool, Field, flock, and lonely tree, All seem to look at me Like chastened children sitting silent in […]