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In Examination
2023-12-06Lo! from quiet skiesIn through the window my Lord the Sun!And my eyesWere dazzled and drunk with the misty gold,The golden glory that drowned and crow...
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To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems
2023-12-06I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love wi...
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I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
2023-12-06I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not waiting for youMy heart moves from cold to fire.I l...
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And Death Shall Have No Dominion
2023-12-06And death shall have no dominion.Dead mean naked they shall be oneWith the man in the wind and the west moon;When their bones are picked clean and the...
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Love Sonnet XVII
2023-12-06I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topazor the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved...
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The New Poetry Handbook
2023-12-061 If a man understands a poem,he shall have troubles.2 If a man lives with a poem,he shall die lonely.3 If a man lives with two poems,he shall be unf...
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One Art
2023-12-06The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every da...
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
2023-12-06I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, b...
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
2023-12-06Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty:This City now doth, like a garme...
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
2023-12-06A slumber did my spirit seal;I had no human fears:She seemed a thing that could not feelThe touch of earthly years.No motion has she now, no force;She...