Poems

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them […]

Fear I am afraid, oh I am so afraid! The cold black fear is clutching me to-night As long ago when they would take the light […]

February They spoke of him I love With cruel words and gay; My lips kept silent guard On all I could not say. I heard, and […]

February Twilight I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was no other creature […]

For the Anniversary of John Keats’ Death At midnight, when the moonlit cypress trees Have woven round his grave a magic shade, Still weeping the unfinished […]

Four Winds “Four winds blowing thro’ the sky, You have seen poor maidens die, Tell me then what I shall do That my lover may be […]

From the North The northern woods are delicately sweet, The lake is folded softly by the shore, But I am restless for the subway’s roar, The […]

From the Sea All beauty calls you to me, and you seem, Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea, To reach me. You are as […]

From the Woolworth Tower Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty Out of the night we come Into the corridor, brilliant and warm. A metal door […]

Galahad in the Castle of the Maidens (To the maiden with the hidden face in Abbey’s painting) The other maidens raised their eyes to him Who […]