Poems

Glee — The Ghosts In life three ghostly friars were we, And now three friarly ghosts we be. Around our shadowy table placed, The spectral bowl […]

I Dug Beneath the Cypress Shade I dug, beneath the cypress shade, What well might seem an elfin’s grave; And every pledge in earth I laid, […]

Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel Instead of sitting wrapped up in flannel With rheumatism in every joint, I wish I was in the English […]

Life’s Uncertain Day The briefest part of life’s uncertain day, Youth’s lovely blossom, hastes to swift decay: While love, wine, song, enhance our gayest mood Old […]

Lines on the Death of Julia Accept, bright spirit, reft in life’s best bloom This votive wreath to thy untimely tomb. Formed to adorn all scenes, […]

Love and Age I play’d with you ‘mid cowslips blowing, When I was six and you were four; When garlands weaving, flower-balls throwing, Were pleasures soon […]

Margaret Love Peacock Long night succeeds thy little day; Oh blighted blossom! can it be, That this grey stone, and grassy clay, Have clos’d our anxious […]

Newark Abbey August, 1842 with a remembrance of August, 1807 I gaze, where August’s sunbeam falls Along these grey and lonely walls, Till in its light […]

Palmyra (1st Edition) —anankta ton pantôn huperbal- lonta chronon makarôn. Pindar. Hymn. frag. 33 I As the mountain-torrent rages, Loud, impetuous, swift, and strong, So the […]

Palmyra (2nd Edition) —anankta ton pantôn huperbal- lonta chronon makarôn. Pindar. Hymn. frag. 33 Spirit of the days of yore! Thou! who, in thy haunted cave, […]