Poems

The Long Hill I must have passed the crest a while ago And now I am going down– Strange to have crossed the crest and not […]

The Look Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon’s kiss was […]

The Metropolitan Tower We walked together in the dusk To watch the tower grow dimly white, And saw it lift against the sky Its flower of […]

The Mother of a Poet She is too kind, I think, for mortal things, Too gentle for the gusty ways of earth; God gave to her […]

The Mystery Your eyes drink of me, Love makes them shine, Your eyes that lean So close to mine. We have long been lovers, We know […]

The Old Maid I saw her in a Broadway car, The woman I might grow to be; I felt my lover look at her And then […]

The Poor House Hope went by and Peace went by And would not enter in; Youth went by and Health went by And Love that is […]

The Prayer My answered prayer came up to me, And in the silence thus spake he: “O you who prayed for me to come, Your greeting […]

The Princess in the Tower I The Princess sings: I am the princess up in the tower And I dream the whole day thro’ Of a […]

The Return I turned the key and opened wide the door To enter my deserted room again, Where thro’ the long hot months the dust had […]