Poems

Still, Though The One I Sing STILL, though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him Revolt, […]

Tears TEARS! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand; Tears–not a star shining–all dark […]

Tests ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the Soul; Not traditions–not the outer authorities are the judges–they are the […]

That Last Invocation At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful, fortress’d house, From the clasp of the knitted locks–from the keep of the […]

That Music Always Round Me THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning–yet long untaught I did not hear; But now the chorus I hear, and am […]

That Shadow, My Likeness THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering; How often I find myself standing and looking […]

The Artilleryman’s Vision WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests at home, […]

The Base Of All Metaphysics AND now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base, and finale too, for all […]

The Centerarian’s Story GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary; The hill-top is nigh–but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen Up the path you have follow’d me […]

The City Dead-House BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause–for lo! an outcast form, […]