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The Kingdom
The Kingdom Now we are come to our Kingdom, And the State is thus and thus; Our legions wait at the Palace gate— Little it profits us. Now we are come to our Kingdom! Now we are…
Witches Chant (from Macbeth)
Witches Chant (from Macbeth) Round about the couldron go: In the poisones entrails throw. Toad,that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sweated venom sleeping got,…
A Parable
A Parable I PICKED a rustic nosegay lately, And bore it homewards, musing greatly; When, heated by my hand, I found The heads all drooping tow'rd the ground. I plac'd them in a…
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged ‘Tis but a vague, invarious delight As gold that rains about some buried king. As the fine flakes, When tourists frolicking Stamp on his roof or in the glazing lig…
Knowing Nothing Shuts The Iron Gates
Knowing Nothing Shuts The Iron Gates Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates; the new love opens them. The sound of the gates opening wakes the beautiful woman asleep. Kabir say…
I Thought of You
"I Thought of You" I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard…
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Prelude; The Wayside Inn
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. Prelude; The Wayside Inn One Autumn night, in Sudbury town, Across the meadows bare and brown, The windows of the wayside inn Gleamed red with…
The Wind
The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass-- O wind, a-blowing all day lon…
First snow
First snow First snow falling on the half-finished bridge. Translated by Robert Hass
The Ballad Of Father O'Hart
The Ballad Of Father O'Hart GOOD Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout. In trust took he John's lands; Sleiveens…
What fish feel
What fish feel What fish feel, birds feel, I don't know-- the year ending. Translated by Robert Hass
Sonnet XI: And Therefore If to Love
Sonnet XI: And Therefore If to Love And therefore if to love can be desert, I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale As these you see, and trembling knees that fail To bear the bu…
Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman
Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone, For love is but a skein…
Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los: And every space that a man views around his dwelling-place Sta…
Verse For a Certain Dog
Verse For a Certain Dog Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes, Dear little friend of mine, I never knew. All-innocent are you, and yet all-wise. (For Heaven's sake, sto…
On My Thirty-Third Birthday, January 22, 1821
On My Thirty-Third Birthday, January 22, 1821 Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty, I have dragg'd to threeandthirty. What have these years left to me? Nothingexcept thir…
Daft
Daft In the warm yellow smile of the morning, She stands at the lattice pane, And watches the strong young binders Stride down to the fields of grain. And she counts them over…
Two Years Later
Two Years Later HAS no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are when they are burned? I could have warned you; but you…
The Reaper And The Flowers
The Reaper And The Flowers There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. ``Shall…
The Sound of the Sea
The Sound of the Sea The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, And round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard the first wave of the rising tide Rush onward with uninterrupte…
From the Arabic, an Imitation
From the Arabic, an Imitation MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks, my love; It panted for thee like the hind at noon For the brooks, my love. Thy barb, whose h…
Cavalier Tunes
Cavalier Tunes . MARCHING ALONG. I. Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And see the rogues flour…
The Altar
The Altar Let us build here an exquisite friendship, The flame, the autumn, and the green rose of love Fought out their strife here, 'tis a place of wonder; Where these have be…
The Princess: A Medley: Come down, O Maid
The Princess: A Medley: Come down, O Maid Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of…