Category Poets

If all the griefs I am to have Would only come today, I am so happy I believe They’d laugh and run away. If all the joys I am to have Would only come today, They could not be so…

Ideals are the Fairy Oil With which We help the Wheel But when the Vital Axle turns The Eye rejects the Oil.

I’d rather recollect a Setting Than own a rising Sun Though one is beautiful forgetting And true the other one. Because in going is a Drama Staying cannot confer – To die divinely once a twilight – Than wane is…

I worked for chaff and earning Wheat Was haughty and betrayed. What right had Fields to arbitrate In matters ratified? I tasted Wheat and hated Chaff And thanked the ample friend – Wisdom is more becoming viewed At distance than…

I weave for the Lamp of Evening – but fairer colors than mine are twined while stars are shining. I know of a shuttle swift – I know of a fairy gift – mat for the “Lamp of Life” – the little Bachelor’s wife!

I watched her face to see which way She took the awful news Whether she died before she heard Or in protracted bruise Remained a few slow years with us Each heavier than the last A further afternoon to fail…

I was a Phebe – nothing more – A Phebe – nothing less – The little note that others dropt I fitted into place – I dwelt too low that any seek – Too shy, that any blame – A…

I took one Draught of Life – I’ll tell you what I paid – Precisely an existence – The market price, they said. They weighed me, Dust by Dust – They balanced Film with Film, Then handed me my Being’s…

I thought the Train would never come – How slow the whistle sang – I don’t believe a peevish Bird So whimpered for the Spring – I taught my Heart a hundred times Precisely what to say – Provoking Lover,…

I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame – Of Human nature just aware There added the Divine Brief struggle for capacity The power to contain Is always…