Poems

Song From The Second Brother STREW not earth with empty stars, Strew it not with roses, Nor feathers from the crest of Mars, Nor summer’s idle […]

Song from the Ship To sea, to sea! The calm is o’er; The wanton water leaps in sport, And rattles down the pebbly shore; The dolphin […]

Song from the Waters Act I, scene iv, lines 259-72 The swallow leaves her nest, The soul my weary breast; But therefore let the rain On […]

Song of the Stygian Naiades Proserpine may pull her flowers, Wet with dew or wet with tears, Red with anger, pale with fears; Is it any […]

Song: Yes, Mary Ann Yes, Mary Ann, I freely grant, The charms of Henry’s eyes I see; But while I gaze, I something want, I want […]

Songs From “Death’s Jest-Book” II – Dirge IF thou wilt ease thine heart Of love and all its smart, Then sleep, dear, sleep; And not a […]

Sonnet – To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye, Like the last orphan leaf of naked tree Which shudders in […]

The Swallow Leaves Her Nest THE swallow leaves her nest, The soul my weary breast; But therefore let the rain On my grave Fall pure; for […]

Thoughts Sweet are the thoughts that haunt the poet’s brain Like rainbow-fringed clouds, through which some star Peeps in bright glory on a shepherd swain; They […]

To Night So thou art come again, old black-winged night, Like an huge bird, between us and the sun, Hiding, with out-stretched form, the genial light; […]