Poems

Near Lanivet 1872 There was a stunted handpost just on the crest, Only a few feet high: She was tired, and we stopped in the twilight-time […]

Neutral Tones WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on […]

Night in the Old Home When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life’s bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from hall […]

No Buyers A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a man, a woman, a […]

On an Invitation to the United States. My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a […]

Postponement SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; and thus I heard, Wearily […]

Revulsion THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss, Out of the night there looms a sense […]

Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius. (Near the graves of Shelley & Keats) Who, then, was Cestius, And what is he to me? – Amid thick […]

Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter. These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Outskeleton Time’s central city, Rome; Whereof each arch, entablature, and […]

Rome: On the Palatine. We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, And passed to Livia’s rich red mural show, Whence, thridding cave and Criptoportico, We […]