-
The Crescent Moon(41)
2023-12-06THE LAST BARGAIN "COME and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was walking on the stone-paved road. Sword in hand, the King came in hi...
-
Flame and Shadow(1)
2023-12-06Blue Squills How many million Aprils came Before I ever knew How white a cherry bough could be, A bed of squills, how blue! And many a dancing April W...
-
Flame and Shadow(2)
2023-12-06Stars Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still, And a heaven full of stars Over my head, White and topaz And misty red; ...
-
Flame and Shadow(3)
2023-12-06"What Do I Care?" What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For they are a fragrance, an...
-
Flame and Shadow(4)
2023-12-06Meadowlarks In the silver light after a storm, Under dripping boughs of bright new green, I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks Alone and high-h...
-
Flame and Shadow(5)
2023-12-06Driftwood My forefathers gave me My spirit's shaken flame, The shape of hands, the beat of heart, The letters of my name. But it was my lovers, An...
-
Flame and Shadow(6)
2023-12-06"I Have Loved Hours at Sea" I have loved hours at sea, gray cities, The fragile secret of a flower, Music, the making of a poem That gave me...
-
Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto1,1)
2023-12-06I. "Stay, traveller, stay thy weary steed, The sultry hour of noon is near, Of rest thy way-worn limbs have need, Stay, then, and, taste its swee...
-
Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto1,2)
2023-12-06II. Thus spake an aged man to one Who manhood's race had just begun. His form of manhood's noblest length Was strung with manhood's stoute...
-
Mazelli, and Other Poems (Canto1,3)
2023-12-06III. From where the hermit's cottage stood, Beneath its huge old guardian tree, The gazer's wand'ring eye might see, Where, in its maze of...