Poems

From Pent-up Aching Rivers FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin’d to make illustrious, even […]

Full Of Life, Now FULL of life, now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States, To one a century hence, or […]

Germs FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, The ones known, and the ones unknown–the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders […]

Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from […]

Gliding Over All GLIDING o’er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul–not life […]

God THOUGHT of the Infinite–the All! Be thou my God. Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade! Waiting, content, invisible yet, but certain, Be thou my God. Thou–thou, […]

Good-Bye My Fancy! Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love! I’m going away, I know not where, Or to what fortune, or whether I may […]

Great Are The Myths . GREAT are the myths–I too delight in them; Great are Adam and Eve–I too look back and accept them; Great the […]

Had I the Choice Had I the choice to tally greatest bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his […]

Hast Never Come To Thee An Hour HAST never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth? These […]