Poems

Love Songs I have remembered beauty in the night, Against black silences I waked to see A shower of sunlight over Italy And green Ravello dreaming […]

Love-Free I am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn, Swift and intent, asking no joy from another, Glad to forget all […]

Madeira from the Sea Out of the delicate dream of the distance an emerald emerges Veiled in the violet folds of the air of the sea; […]

Marianna Alcoforando The sparrows wake beneath the convent eaves; I think I have not slept the whole night through. But I am old; the aged scarcely […]

May The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But for me the […]

May Day The shining line of motors, The swaying motor-bus, The prancing dancing horses Are passing by for us. The sunlight on the steeple, The toys […]

May Night The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in […]

May Wind I said, “I have shut my heart As one shuts an open door, That Love may starve therein And trouble me no more.” But […]

Message I heard a cry in the night, A thousand miles it came, Sharp as a flash of light, My name, my name! It was your […]

Moods I am the still rain falling, Too tired for singing mirth– Oh, be the green fields calling, Oh, be for me the earth! I am […]