Poems

Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio The fountain shivers lightly in the rain, The laurels drip, the fading roses fall, The marble satyr plays a mournful strain That leaves […]

Vox Corporis The beast to the beast is calling, And the soul bends down to wait; Like the stealthy lord of the jungle, The white man […]

Water Lilies If you have forgotten water lilies floating On a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon shade, If you have forgotten their wet, sleepy […]

What Do I Care? What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For […]

When Love Goes I O mother, I am sick of love, I cannot laugh nor lift my head, My bitter dreams have broken me, I would […]

When Love was Born When Love was born I think he lay Right warm on Venus’ breast, And whiles he smiled and whiles would play And […]

While I May Wind and hail and veering rain, Driven mist that veils the day, Soul’s distress and body’s pain, I would bear you while I […]

Wild Asters In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the clever, clear-eyed daisies Always knew. Now the fields are brown […]

Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I […]

Young Love I I cannot heed the words they say, The lights grow far away and dim, Amid the laughing men and maids My eyes unbidden […]