Poems

Song Of The Redwood-Tree . A prophecy and indirection–a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing–or hamadryads departing; A murmuring, fateful, […]

Song Of The Universal . COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this broad Earth […]

Souvenirs Of Democracy THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his children–bequeaths stocks, goods– […]

Spain 1873-’74 OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap’d-up skeletons of kings, Out of that old entire European debris–the […]

Sparkles From The Wheel WHERE the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live-long day, Withdrawn, I join a group of children watching–I pause aside with them. […]

Spirit That Form’d This Scene SPIRIT that form’d this scene, These tumbled rock-piles grim and red, These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks, These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked […]

Spirit Whose Work Is Done SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours! Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets; Spirit of […]

Spontaneous Me SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend hanging idly over my […]

Starting From Paumanok STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands–lover of populous pavements; Dweller […]

States! STATES! Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Away! I arrive, bringing these, […]