Poems

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

To Erinna Was Time not harsh to you, or was he kind, O pale Erinna of the perfect lyre, That he has left no word of […]

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

To Rose Rose, when I remember you, Little lady, scarcely two, I am suddenly aware Of the angels in the air. All your softly gracious ways […]

To the Years To-night I close my eyes and see A strange procession passing me– The years before I saw your face Go by me with […]

Tonight The moon is a curving flower of gold, The sky is still and blue; The moon was made for the sky to hold, And I […]

Twilight Dreamily over the roofs The cold spring rain is falling, Out in the lonely tree A bird is calling, calling. Slowly over the earth The […]

Two Minds Your mind and mine are such great lovers they Have freed themselves from cautious human clay, And on wild clouds of thought, naked together […]

Understanding I understood the rest too well, And all their thoughts have come to be Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell Of a sunny shallow […]

Union Square With the man I love who loves me not, I walked in the street-lamps’ flare; We watched the world go home that night In […]