Poems

Years Of The Modern YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform’d! Your horizon rises–I see it parting away for more august dramas; I see not […]

Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles! Earth […]

Death When I am dead a few poor souls shall grieve As I grieved for my brother long ago. Scarce did my eyes grow dim, I […]

Ecstasy I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn Of boys who sought for shells along the shore, Their white feet shedding pallor in the sea, […]

Kent In War The pebbly brook is cold to-night, Its water soft as air, A clear, cold, crystal-bodied wind Shadowless and bare, Leaping and running in […]

Magic I love a still conservatory That’s full of giant, breathless palms, Azaleas, clematis and vines, Whose quietness great Trees becalms Filling the air with foliage, […]

Peace In low chalk hills the great King’s body lay And bright streams fell, tinkling like polished tin, As though they carried off his armoury, And […]

Romance When I was but thirteen or so I went into a golden land, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Took me by the hand. My father died, my brother […]

Silence It was bright day and all the trees were still In the deep valley, and the dim Sun glowed; The clay in hard-baked fire along […]

Song Gently, sorrowfully sang the maid Sowing the ploughed field over, And her song was only: ‘Come, O my lover!’ Strangely, strangely shone the light, Stilly […]