Poems

Song You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was […]

Song At Capri When beauty grows too great to bear How shall I ease me of its ache, For beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart […]

Soul’s Birth When you were born, beloved, was your soul New made by God to match your body’s flower, And were they both at one same […]

Spring In War Time I feel the Spring far off, far off, The faint far scent of bud and leaf– Oh how can Spring take heart […]

Spring Night The park is filled with night and fog, The veils are drawn about the world, The drowsy lights along the paths Are dim and […]

Spring Rain I thought I had forgotten, But it all came back again To-night with the first spring thunder In a rush of rain. I remembered […]

Stars Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still, And a heaven full of stars Over my head White […]

Summer Night, Riverside In the wild soft summer darkness How many and many a night we two together Sat in the park and watched the Hudson […]

Swallow Flight I love my hour of wind and light, I love men’s faces and their eyes, I love my spirit’s veering flight Like swallows under […]

Swans Night is over the park, and a few brave stars Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold, The lake bears up […]