To Please My Sense
To Please My Sense To Please My Sense (Eriu – Ireland) Coquette colleen! Such drear, dull clothes curtail Your splendours wrapping them behind a veil Of dropping, drooping, drab obscurity. […]
Cooking the Books?
Cooking the Books? “Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?” (Abt Vogler: by R. Browning) Perhaps we […]
Naissance
Naissance Naissance I feel expectance in each sense, (Not of some tragedy or ill, Rather of pre-deliverance): A turmoil of crescendent will. I cannot ease this veiled unrest, […]
Winter Gales
Winter Gales Those galling gales, which in rough Winter rush Across bald-headed mountaintops exposed To their wild buffetings as captives to Some hateful prison-master’s vicious scourge: Over the cringing, wooded-hillsides’ slopes They violently hasten with rude roars, Like raging sea-surges pounding rock shores Intemperately. All the laggard leaves They […]
Lest You Rue
Lest You Rue. Do not linger, lucky maid; Go with him Who for your heart has prayed, For see, he loves you!. Do not proudly stand aloof, Nor seek from him Too much proof As a final token, For his heart has spoken!. […]
The Pool
The Pool. Step into the Pool, my darling. (Do not be afraid!). Let its waters close about you Like a fond embrace. Totally immerse your being In its lustrous depths; Give yourself to its calm comfort: Gently, then, relax!. Here there is no […]
Spring Returns
Spring Returns. Now that wild Winter’s frenzied blasts have blown Their last, loud roar; And frost and snow and bitterness have flown Away once more: Now is it time for lusty Spring To sport Amidst long-hibernated thought And bring […]
The Fox
The Fox As one, the fox and I were motionless. Along the cool, sun-dappled path between Tall-colonnaded trees – his tawny fur Glistening with points of golden light, his dark Eyes starred with bright intelligence; sharp-nosed White-toothed, pink tongue a-loll, inquisitive, […]
Hawk
Hawk Hawk I saw a hunting hawk today, over Near fields, on trembling feathers hanging high; And marvelled at the link of brain to limb Which gave such perfect mastery of flight: Until it stone-dropped suddenly from view, Then rose again, triumphantly, above The fringing boscage trailing, in clasped feet, The abject […]