Poems

Primavera Mia As kings, seeing their lives about to pass, Take off the heavy ermine and the crown, So had the trees that autumn-time laid down […]

Riches I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me; My thoughts of you are golden coins Stamped in the mint […]

Rispetto Was that his step that sounded on the stair? Was that his knock I heard upon the door? I grow so tired I almost cease […]

Roundel If he could know my songs are all for him, At silver dawn or in the evening glow, Would he not smile and think it […]

Sappho The twilight’s inner flame grows blue and deep, And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea, The temples glimmer moonwise in the trees. Twilight has […]

Sea Longing A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand, The ebbing tide forsakes the listless land With the […]

Silence (To Eleonora Duse) We are anhungered after solitude, Deep stillness pure of any speech or sound, Soft quiet hovering over pools profound, The silences that […]

Sleepless If I could have your arms tonight- But half the world and the broken sea Lie between you and me. The autumn rain reverberates in […]

Snow Song Fairy snow, fairy snow, Blowing, blowing everywhere, Would that I Too, could fly Lightly, lightly through the air. Like a wee, crystal star I […]

Snowfall “She can’t be unhappy,” you said, “The smiles are like stars in her eyes, And her laughter is thistledown Around her low replies.” “Is she […]