Poems

Thoughts of Phena Not a line of her writing have I Not a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time as dame in […]

To A Lady Offended by a Book of the Writer’s NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe, Never to press thy cosy cushions more, Or wake […]

To an Orphan Child Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; Hers couldst thou wholly be, My light in thee would outglow all in […]

To an Unborn Pauper Child Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, Sleep the long sleep: The Doomsters heap Travails and […]

To Meet, or Otherwise Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams, Or whether to stay And see thee not! How vast the difference […]

To Outer Nature SHOW thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee, Omen-scouting, All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee– Wrought thee for my […]

Transformations Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his wife, A ruddy human life […]

Under the Waterfall ‘Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day […]

Unknowing WHEN, soul in soul reflected, We breathed an æthered air, When we neglected All things elsewhere, And left the friendly friendless To keep our love […]

V.R. 1819-1901 (A Reverie.) Moments the mightiest pass calendared, And when the Absolute In backward Time outgave the deedful word Whereby all life is stirred: “Let […]