Poems

Debris HE is wisest who has the most caution, He only wins who goes far enough. Any thing is as good as established, when that is […]

Delicate Cluster DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke […]

Despairing Cries DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death–the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain, This […]

Dirge For Two Veterans THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath, On the pavement here–and there beyond, it is looking, Down a new-made double […]

Drum-Taps Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d, and I resign’d […]

Earth! my Likeness! EARTH! my likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there […]

Eidólons . I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, To glean Eidólons. Put […]

Elemental Drifts . ELEMENTAL drifts! How I wish I could impress others as you have just been impressing me! As I ebb’d with an ebb of […]

Ethiopia Saluting The Colors WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban’d head, and bare bony feet? Why, rising by […]

Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States SUDDENLY, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Like lightning it le’pt forth, […]