Poems

To Age Welcome, old friend! These many years Have we lived door by door; The fates have laid aside their shears Perhaps for some few more. […]

To Robert Browning There is delight in singing, tho’ none hear Beside the singer; and there is delight In praising, tho’ the praiser sit alone And […]

To Zoë Against the groaning mast I stand, The Atlantic surges swell, To bear me from my native land And Zoë’s wild farewell. From billow upon […]

Twenty Years Hence Twenty years hence my eyes may grow If not quite dim, yet rather so, Still yours from others they shall know Twenty years […]

Verse Past ruined Ilion Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades. Verse calls them forth; ’tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Soon shall […]

Very True, the Linnets Sing Very true, the linnets sing Sweetest in the leaves of spring: You have found in all these leaves That which changes […]

Well I Remember How You Smiled Well I remember how you smiled To see me write your name upon The soft sea-sand . . . “O! […]

What News Here, ever since you went abroad, If there be change, no change I see, I only walk our wonted road, The road is only […]

Who Ever Felt as I? Mother, I cannot mind my wheel; My fingers ache, my lips are dry: Oh! if you felt the pain I feel! […]

Why, Why Repine Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipp’d away? Some the stern Fates will never lend, And all refuse to stay. I […]