Poems

Proud Word You Never Spoke Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak Four not exempt from pride some future day. Resting on one white […]

Remain! REMAIN, ah not in youth alone! –Tho’ youth, where you are, long will stay– But when my summer days are gone, And my autumnal haste […]

Rose Aylmer Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom […]

Separation THERE is a mountain and a wood between us, Where the lone shepherd and late bird have seen us Morning and noon and eventide repass. […]

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O’er Soon, O Ianthe! life is o’er, And sooner beauty’s heavenly smile: Grant only (and I ask no more), Let love […]

The Chrysolites and Rubies Bacchus Brings The chrysolites and rubies Bacchus brings To crown the feast where swells the broad-vein’d brow, Where maidens blush at what […]

The Dragon-Fly Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream; I wish no happier one than to be laid Beneath a cool syringa’s scented shade, […]

The Evening Star Smiles soon abate; the boisterous throes Of anger long burst forth; Inconstantly the south-wind blows, But steadily the north. Thy star, O Venus! […]

The Maid’s Lament I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check’d him while he spoke; yet, could […]

The Three Roses When the buds began to burst, Long ago, with Rose the First I was walking; joyous then Far above all other men, Till […]