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Vain is the chiming of forgotten bellsThat the wind sways above a ruined shrine.Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwellsHunger that craves immortal..

A few long-hoarded pennies in his handBehold him stand;A kilted Hedonist, perplexed and sad.The joy that once he had,The first delight of ownership..

(For Robert Cortez Holiday)If I should live in a forestAnd sleep underneath a tree,No grove of impudent saplingsWould make a home for me.I'd go where..

In a wood they call Rouge BouquetThere is a new-made grave today,Built by never a spade nor pickYet covered with earth 10 meters thick.There lie many..

'Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,It's with O'Leary in the grave.'Then, Yeats, what gave that Easter dawnA hue so radiantly brave?There was a rain of..

I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at..

The air is like a butterflyWith frail blue wings.The happy earth looks at the skyAnd sings.

There's a brook on the side of Greylock that used to be full of trout,But there's nothing there now but minnows; they say it is all fished out.I..

No longer of Him be it said'He hath no place to lay His head.'In every land a constant lampFlames by His small and mighty camp.There is no strange..

When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farmAcross green fields and yellow hills of hayThe little twittering birds laugh in his wayAnd poise triumphant..

ISerene and beautiful and very wise,Most erudite in curious Grecian lore,You lay and read your learned books, and boreA weight of unshed tears and..

There was a gentle hostler(And blessed be his name!)He opened up the stableThe night Our Lady came.Our Lady and Saint Joseph,He gave them food and..

There was a murkier tinge in London's airAs if the honest fog blushed black for shame.Fools sang of sin, for other fools' acclaim,And Milton's wreath..

(For Sara Teasdale)The lonely farm, the crowded street,The palace and the slum,Give welcome to my silent feetAs, bearing gifts, I come.Last night a..

(For Aline)Because the road was steep and longAnd through a dark and lonely land,God set upon my lips a songAnd put a lantern in my hand.Through..

The Kings of the earth are men of might,And cities are burned for their delight,And the skies rain death in the silent night,And the hills belch..

In alien earth, across a troubled sea,His body lies that was so fair and young.His mouth is stopped, with half his songs unsung;His arm is still..

Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously,And match and blend thy words with curious art?For Song, one saith, is but a human heartSpeaking aloud..

(For A. K. K.)What distant mountains thrill and glowBeneath our Lady Folly's tread?Why has she left us, wise in woe,Shrewd, practical, uncomforted?We..

(For Aline)Monsignore,Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus,Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni,Now of the delightful Court of Heaven,I..

Serene he stands, with mist serenely crowned,And draws a cloak of trees about his breast.The thunder roars but cannot break his restAnd from his..

The fragile splendour of the level sea,The moon's serene and silver-veiled face,Make of this vessel an enchanted placeFull of white mirth and golden..

When I am tired of earnest men,Intense and keen and sharp and clever,Pursuing fame with brush or penOr counting metal disks forever,Then from the..

(For S.M.L.)I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to beWhen it all was..

I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well;I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell;O happy lamp! to serve Him with never..