Poems

Suddenly Shutting our lips upon a jest As we are sipping thoughts from little glasses, A gun bursts thunder and the echoing streets Quiver with startled terrors-- How swift runs...

What words that move on wings in a long drift Can waft this silence into weary ears, And steal into the veins and fingertips Of restless bodies, like magnificent ships Proud fro...

Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought Than thou canst reach in every trivial day. Since days are as the flowers on a wreath That wither while we bind them each to each. On...

How beautiful is the world's delight, How trivial, yet as sweet as a passing dream That makes the harassed sleeper in the night Smile, and on waking sigh. Forever the stream Of...

You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs With rights and wrongs and arguments of good, You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns, You stop my heart and turn it into wood.

O God, We have nothing to give Thee, We are as fog that drifts on the river, As the wailing of voices blown through mist-- We are as those that carry bags of dust Heaping them w...