Archive of Classic Poems

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Lyrical Poems

Before the Altar
Suggested by the Cover
   of a Volume of Keats's Poems
Apples of Hesperides
Azure and Gold
Petals
Venetian Glass
Fatigue
A Japanese Wood-Carving
A Little Song
Behind a Wall
A Winter Ride
A Coloured Print by Shokei
Song
The Fool Errant
The Green Bowl
Hora Stellatrix
Fragment
Loon Point
Summer
"To-morrow to Fresh Woods and Pastures New"
The Way
Diya  {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha}
Roads
Teatro Bambino.  Dublin, N. H.
The Road to Avignon
New York at Night
A Fairy Tale
Crowned
To Elizabeth Ward Perkins
The Promise of the Morning Star
J--K. Huysmans
March Evening

Sonnets

Leisure
On Carpaccio's Picture:  The Dream of St. Ursula
The Matrix
Monadnock in Early Spring
The Little Garden
To an Early Daffodil
Listening
The Lamp of Life
Hero-Worship
In Darkness
Before Dawn
The Poet
At Night
The Fruit Garden Path
Mirage
To a Friend
A Fixed Idea
Dreams
Frankincense and Myrrh
From One Who Stays
Crepuscule du Matin
Aftermath
The End
The Starling
Market Day
Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina
Francis II, King of Naples
To John Keats

The Boston Athenaeum

The Boston Athenaeum

Verses for Children

Sea Shell
Fringed Gentians
The Painted Ceiling
The Crescent Moon
Climbing
The Trout
Wind
The Pleiades

Sword Blades & Poppy Seed

Sword Blades & Poppy Seed

Sword Blades

The Captured Goddess
The Precinct.  Rochester
The Cyclists
Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window
A London Thoroughfare.  2 A.M.
Astigmatism
The Coal Picker
Storm-Racked
Convalescence
Patience
Apology
A Petition
A Blockhead
Stupidity
Irony
Happiness
The Last Quarter of the Moon
A Tale of Starvation
The Foreigner
Absence
A Gift
The Bungler
Fool's Money Bags
Miscast I
Miscast II
Anticipation
Vintage
The Tree of Scarlet Berries
Obligation
The Taxi
The Giver of Stars
The Temple
Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success
In Answer to a Request

Poppy Seed

The Great Adventure of Max Breuck
Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok
Clear, with Light, Variable Winds
The Basket
In a Castle
The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde
The Exeter Road
The Shadow
The Forsaken
Late September
The Pike
The Blue Scarf
White and Green
Aubade
Music
A Lady
In a Garden
A Tulip Garden

Men, Women and Ghosts

Figurines in Old Saxe

Patterns
Pickthorn Manor
The Cremona Violin
The Cross-Roads
A Roxbury Garden
1777

Bronze Tablets

The Fruit Shop
Malmaison
The Hammers
Two Travellers in the Place Vendome

War Pictures

The Allies
The Bombardment
Lead Soldiers
The Painter on Silk
A Ballad of Footmen

The Overgrown Pasture

Reaping
Off the Turnpike
The Grocery
Number 3 on the Docket

Clocks Tick a Century

Nightmare:  A Tale for an Autumn Evening
The Paper Windmill
The Red Lacquer Music-Stand
Spring Day
The Dinner-Party
Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String Quartet

Towns in Colour

Red Slippers
Thompson's Lunch Room -- Grand Central Station
An Opera House
Afternoon Rain in State Street
An Aquarium