Book: Death and Taxes

• Little Words

  When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf,
  Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds;

  12 lines
• Midnight

  The stars are soft as flowers, and as near;
  The hills are webs of shadow, slowly spun;

  8 lines
• Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence

  So take my vows and scatter them to sea;
  Who swears the sweetest is no more than human.

  14 lines
• Tombstones In The Starlight

  I. The Minor Poet
  His little trills and chirpings were his best.

  44 lines
• Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday

  So let me have the rouge again,
   And comb my hair the curly way.

  16 lines, 5 comments
• Of A Woman, Dead Young

  If she had been beautiful, even,
  Or wiser than women about her,

  20 lines, 4 comments
• The Flaw In Paganism

  Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
   Love, the reeling midnight through,

  4 lines
• Ultimatum

  I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend,
  Of worry and strain and doubt;

  16 lines
• Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song

  There's many and many, and not so far,
   Is willing to dry my tears away;

  12 lines
• Transition

  Too long and quickly have I lived to vow
  The woe that stretches me shall never wane,

  14 lines
• Temps Perdu

  I never may turn the loop of a road
   Where sudden, ahead, the sea is Iying,

  16 lines, 1 comment
• The Little Old Lady In Lavender Silk

  I was seventy-seven, come August,
    I shall shortly be losing my bloom;

  33 lines
• Lines On Reading Too Many Poets

  Roses, rooted warm in earth,
    Bud in rhyme, another age;

  12 lines
• The Lady's Reward

  Lady, lady, never start
  Conversation toward your heart;

  20 lines
• Prayer For A Prayer

  Dearest one, when I am dead
   Never seek to follow me.

  12 lines
• Sweet Violets

  You are brief and frail and blue-
  Little sisters, I am, too.

  4 lines
• Sanctuary

  My land is bare of chattering folk;
   The clouds are low along the ridges,

  4 lines
• Solace

  There was a rose that faded young;
  I saw its shattered beauty hung

  12 lines
• Star Light, Star Bright

  Star, that gives a gracious dole,
    What am I to choose?

  19 lines, 7 comments
• Salome's Dancing-Lesson

  She that begs a little boon
   (Heel and toe! Heel and toe!)

  25 lines
• The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse

  And now I have another lad!
  No longer need you tell

  24 lines
• Prologue To A Saga

  Maidens, gather not the yew,
    Leave the glossy myrtle sleeping;

  8 lines
• The Willow

  On sweet young earth where the myrtle presses,
   Long we lay, when the May was new;

  8 lines
• Prayer For a New Mother

  The things she knew, let her forget again-
  The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,

  16 lines
• My Own

  Then let them point my every tear,
   And let them mock and moan;

  8 lines
• Guinevere At Her Fireside

  A nobler king had never breath-
  I say it now, and said it then.

  24 lines
• Ornithology For Beginners

  The bird that feeds from off my palm
  Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,

  4 lines
• Ballade Of Unfortunate Mammals

  Love is sharper than stones or sticks;
    Lone as the sea, and deeper blue;

  32 lines, 1 comment
• Prisoner

  Long I fought the driving lists,
   Plume a-stream and armor clanging;

  4 lines, 1 comment
• After Spanish Proverb

  Oh, mercifullest one of all,
   Oh, generous as dear,

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Requiescat

  Tonight my love is sleeping cold
   Where none may see and none shall pass.

  8 lines
• Autumn Valentine

  In May my heart was breaking-
   Oh, wide the wound, and deep!

  8 lines, 2 comments
• Sight

  Unseemly are the open eyes
   That watch the midnight sheep,

  8 lines
• Ballade Of A Talked-Off Ear

  Daily I listen to wonder and woe,
  Nightly I hearken to knave or to ace,

  29 lines, 2 comments
• Sonnet On An Alpine Night

  My hand, a little raised, might press a star-
  Where I may look, the frosted peaks are spun,

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Cherry White

  I never see that prettiest thing-
  A cherry bough gone white with Spring-

  4 lines
• Summary

  Every love's the love before
   In a duller dress.

  6 lines, 1 comment
• Distance

  Were you to cross the world, my dear,
   To work or love or fight,

  8 lines
• The Apple Tree

  When first we saw the apple tree
   The boughs were dark and straight,

  8 lines
• From A Letter From Lesbia

  ... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away!
   And let me tend you this advice, my dear:

  12 lines, 2 comments
• The Evening Primrose

  You know the bloom, unearthly white,
  That none has seen by morning light-

  10 lines
• Garden-Spot

  God's acre was her garden-spot, she said;
   She sat there often, of the Summer days,

  12 lines
• The Sea

  Who lay against the sea, and fled,
   Who lightly loved the wave,

  8 lines
• Iseult Of Brittany

  So delicate my hands, and long,
   They might have been my pride.

  8 lines
• Vers Demode

  For one, the amaryllis and the rose;
   The poppy, sweet as never lilies are;

  8 lines

• By me, right now

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