Irish Guards
Irish Guards (Coolmela) In countless ranks about my house — In uniforms of shadowed black Or sunlit green, or arid tones Of brittle brown — my tall guards stand. No eye can take in at one view All of their Companies formed up In ordered squares along […]
Incantation
Incantation If I were Mercury, on healing wing, To touch with white caduceus your hurt; If I were famed Asklepios, to bring Skill-blended draughts to ease your sickened heart; If I were […]
Discretion
Discretion It’s strange how into silence we may grow During the passage of our middle years; How mistrust and suspicion come between The carefree confidences of proud youth And knowing cynicism of ripe years. Not even those we love above […]
Phœnix
Phœnix Five hundred disappointments turn to ash; Five hundred sadnesses their embers add; And yet five hundred more bleak problems drop Their charred remains upon the reeking pyre Of life’s ambitions and frustrated dreams. The […]
To Touch Your Heart
To Touch your Heart? Since love itself is enough, What must I do to touch your heart?. To you it makes no difference Whether, (like Chauvin), I strut proud — Flaunting my independent mind — Or scrape in Helot servitude Anticipating each your whim. If […]
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown Westwards, on winds of hope, I sail at last Towards my bright tomorrow’s hidden lands; As once Columbus and Magellan went To find their destinies in history. Columbus for the Indies set his course But found, instead, Southern America; […]
After the Break
After the Break Since human life is progress preordained By God — who gave that life to each of us — Let us not, in the embers of our love, Allow self-pity to embitter us. You […]
To A.E.M
To A.E.M Had I the words, my darling, I would tell In whispered phrases sweet of my great love. Of how your presence<charms the very air Which close-enwraps us in its gentleness; Of how all things assume a pleasantness Unnoticed ’til you come, my dearest one. But since […]
Secret Flame
Secret Flame I want to say: “I love you, dear!” But, every time I start, I find I can’t express the warmth Deep-glowing in my heart. I cannot tell you how I thrill Whenever you are near, Nor demonstrate the tenderness For you I fondly bear. […]