PATTERNS I WALK down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden paths In my st...
A BATHER THICK dappled by circles of sunshine and fluttering shade. Your bright, naked body advances, blown over by leaves, Half-quenched in their var...
AMY LOWELL LEPRECHAUNS AND CLURICAUNS OVER where the Irish hedges Are with blossoms white as snow, Over where the limestone ledges Through the soft gr...
L'ENVOI WHEN the time for parting comes, and the day is on the wane, And the silent evening darkens over hill and over plain, And earth holds no m...
DRAGON SOME saw a dragon eating up the light, Oho! Oho! Oho, ho, ho! Some heard a lost bird riding out the night, Oho! Oho! Oho, ho, ho! But I saw: A ...
GREEN GOLDEN DOOR GREEN golden door, swing in, swing in! Fanning the life a man must live, Echoes and airs and minstrelsies, Love and hope that he cal...
SLEEPY HOLLOW, CONCORD FOUR graves there are upon the wooded crest, Each one a shrine to pilgrims ever dear. Uncovered, mute, are those who tarry here...
THE SWORD OF ARTHUR A CASTLE stands in Yorkshire (Oh, the hill is fair and green!) And far beneath it lies a cave No living man has seen. It is the ca...
THE DIVINE FOREST IF there be leaves on the forest floor, Dead leaves there are and nothing more, If trunks of trees seem sentinels, For what their vi...
MAGIC TO W.S.B. I RAN into the sunset light As hard as I could run: The treetops bowed in sheer delight As if they loved the sun: And all the songs of...