Poems

Testament I said, “I will take my life And throw it away; I who was fire and song Will turn to clay.” “I will lie no […]

The Answer When I go back to earth And all my joyous body Puts off the red and white That once had been so proud, If […]

The Blind The birds are all a-building, They say the world’s a-flower, And still I linger lonely Within a barren bower. I weave a web of […]

The Broken Field My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. Where grass and […]

The Carpenter’s Son The summer dawn came over-soon, The earth was like hot iron at noon In Nazareth; There fell no rain to ease the heat, […]

The Cloud I am a cloud in the heaven’s height, The stars are lit for my delight, Tireless and changeful, swift and free, I cast my […]

The Crystal Gazer I shall gather myself into myself again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one, Fusing them into a polished crystal […]

The Dreams of My Heart The dreams of my heart and my mind pass, Nothing stays with me long, But I have had from a child […]

The Faery Forest The faery forest glimmered Beneath an ivory moon, The silver grasses shimmered Against a faery tune. Beneath the silken silence The crystal branches […]

The Flight Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow, […]