Poems

The Moon Oh, don’t you remember the lucky New Moon, Which I show’d you as soon as it peep’d forth at eve? When I spoke of […]

The Morning Dream The eye of weeping Had closed in sleeping, And I dreamt a bright dream of night, And that sweet dreaming, Had all the […]

The Pilgrim Harper The night was cold and dreary–no star was in the sky, When, travel-tired and weary, the harper raised his cry. He raised his […]

The Ring And The Winding-Sheet Why sought you not the silent bower, The bower, nor hawthorn tree; Why came you not at evening hour, Why came […]

The Two Barrels Song For The Rifle Volunteers Of England: There’s a barrel I have in a corner so snug, Well charged with the best of […]

To Mary As in the calmest day the pine-tree gives A soft low murmur to the wooing wind, When other trees are silent–so love lives In […]

True Love Can Never Forget “True love can ne’er forget; Fondly as when we met, Dearest, I love thee yet, My darling one!” Thus sung a […]

Yearning Far shore, far shore–how far O’er the tide of Time you seem;– Where is the mystic star To guide o’er the waters far– To that […]

A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion Now as Heaven is my Lot, they’re the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they […]

A Tombless Epitaph ‘Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends, Masking […]