Book: Collected Poems

• Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford

  You are a friend then, as I make it out,
  Of our man Shakespea

  416 lines
• Mr. Flood's Party

  Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
  Over the hill between the 

  61 lines
• Villanelle of Change

  Since Persia fell at Marathon,
  The yellow years have gathered fa

  19 lines, 1 comment
• The House on the Hill

  They are all gone away,
  The House is shut and still,

  19 lines, 2 comments
• Richard Corey

  WHENEVER Richard Cory went down town,
  We people on the pavement looked at him:

  18 lines, 11 comments
• Reuben Bright

  Because he was a butcher and thereby
  Did earn an honest living&nb

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Supremacy

  There is a drear and lonely tract of hell
  From all the commo

  14 lines
• Octaves

  I
  We thrill too strangely at the master's touch;

  216 lines
• Miniver Cheevy

  Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
  Grew lean while he assailed&nbs

  37 lines, 2 comments
• Luke Havergal

  Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,
  There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,

  32 lines
• Calverly's

  We go no more to Calverly's,
  For there the lights are few and low;

  32 lines
• The Clerks

  I did not think that I should find them there
  When I came back again; but there they stood,

  14 lines
• The Companion

  Let him answer as he will,
  Or be lightsome as he may,

  14 lines
• Dear Friends

  Dear Friends, reproach me not for what I do,
  Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say

  14 lines
• Fleming Helphenstine

  At first I thought there was a superfine
  Persuasion in his face; but the free flow

  14 lines
• A Song at Shannon's

  Two men came out of Shannon's, having known
  The faces of each other for so long

  14 lines
• Souvenir

  A vanished house that for an hour I knew
  By some forgotten chance when I was young

  14 lines
• Aaron Stark

  Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
  Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.

  14 lines, 1 comment
• The Gift of God

  Blessed with a joy that only she
  Of all alive shall ever know,

  48 lines
• The Field of Glory

  War shook the land where Levi dwelt,
  And fired the dismal wrath he felt,

  48 lines
• Afterthoughts

  We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned
  Under the wayside maple and walked on,

  14 lines
• Lost Anchors

  Like a dry fish flung inland far from shore,
  There lived a sailor, warped and ocean-browned,

  14 lines
• Vain Gratuities

  Never was there a man much uglier
  In eyes of other women, or more grim:

  14 lines
• Tact

  Observant of the way she told
  So much of what was true,

  24 lines
• The Flying Dutchman

  Unyielding in the pride of his defiance,
  Afloat with none to serve or to command,

  20 lines, 1 comment
• Firelight

  Ten years together without yet a cloud
  They seek each other's eyes at intervals

  14 lines
• Cassandra

  I heard one who said: "Verily,
  What word have I for children here?

  48 lines
• Bewick Finzer

  Time was when his half million drew
  The breath of six per cent;

  30 lines
• The Dark Hills

  Dark hills at evening in the west,
  Where sunset hovers like a sound

  8 lines
• An Old Story

  Strange that I did not know him then.
  That friend of mine!

  12 lines
• For a Dead Lady

  No more with overflowing light
  Shall fill the eyes that now are faded,

  24 lines
• Eros Turannos

  She fears him, and will always ask
  What fated her to choose him;

  48 lines, 1 comment
• Credo

  I cannot find my way: there is no star
  In all the shrouded heavens anywhere;

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Neighbors

  As often as we thought of her,
  We thought of a gray life

  24 lines
• Alma Mater

  He knocked, and I beheld him at the door--
  A vision for the gods to verify.

  14 lines
• For Ariva

  You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes.
  That look so dubiously into me,

  14 lines
• Uncle Ananias

  His words were magic and his heart was true,
  And everywhere he wandered he was blessed.

  30 lines
• Momus

  "Where's the need of singing now?"--
  Smooth your brow,

  21 lines
• The Town Down by the River

  I
  Said the Watcher by the Way

  132 lines
• Cortège

  Four o'clock this afternoon,
  Fifteen hundred miles away:

  24 lines
• The Woman and the Wife

  I--THE EXPLANATION
  "You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong.

  30 lines
• The Corridor

  It may have been the pride in me for aught
  I know, or just a patronizing whim;

  16 lines
• Fragment

  Faint white pillars that seem to fade
  As you look from here are the first one sees

  22 lines
• The Dark House

  Where a faint light shines alone,
  Dwells a Demon I have known.

  49 lines
• The Unforgiven

  When he, who is the unforgiven,
  Beheld her first, he found her fair:

  56 lines
• Flammonde

  The man Flammonde, from God knows where,
  With firm address and foreign air

  96 lines
• The Story of the Ashes and the Flame

  No matter why, nor whence, nor when she came,
  There was her place. No matter what men said,

  14 lines
• Calvary

  Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow,
  Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free,

  14 lines
• John Evereldown

  "Where are you going to-night, to-night, --
  Where are you going, John Evereldown?

  32 lines
• Two Men

  There be two men of all mankind
  That I should like to know about;

  16 lines
• Her Eyes

  Up from the street and the crowds that went,
  Morning and midnight, to and fro,

  36 lines
• Ballad of Broken Flutes

  In dreams I crossed a barren land,
  A land of ruin, far away;

  29 lines
• Ballad by the Fire

  Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
  The while a witless masquerade

  29 lines, 1 comment
• Three Quatrains

  I
  As long as Fame's imperious music rings

  15 lines
• Amaryllis

  Once, when I wandered in the woods alone,
  An old man tottered up to me and said,

  14 lines, 3 comments
• An Evangelist's Wife

  “Why am I not myself these many days,
  You ask? And have you nothing more to ask?

  15 lines
• An Island

  (SAINT HELENA, 1821)
  

  210 lines
• Another Dark Lady

  Think not, because I wonder where you fled,
  That I would lift a pin to see you there;

  15 lines
• Archibald's Example

  Old Archibald, in his eternal chair,
  Where trespassers, whatever their degree,

  21 lines
• As a World Would Have It

  Shall I never make him look at me again?
  I look at him, I look my life at him

  78 lines
• Atherton's Gambit

  The Master played the bishop’s pawn,
  For jest, while Atherton looked on;

  41 lines
• Aunt Imogen

  Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore
  The children—Jane, Sylvester, and Young George—

  145 lines, 1 comment
• Avon's Harvest

  Fear, like a living fire that only death
  Might one day cool, had now in Avon’s eyes

  1034 lines
• Thomas Hood

  The man who cloaked his bitterness within
  This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries,

  14 lines
• Ben Trovato

  The Deacon thought. “I know them,” he began,
  “And they are all you ever heard of them—

  15 lines
• Bokardo

  Well, Bokardo, here we are;
  Make yourself at home.

  133 lines
• Bon Voyage

  Child of a line accurst
  And old as Troy,

  55 lines
• Boston

  My northern pines are good enough for me,
  But there’s a town my memory uprears—

  8 lines
• But for the Grace of God

  “There, but for the grace of God, goes…”
  

  50 lines
• Captain Craig

  I
  I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town

  390 lines
• Caput Mortuum

  Not even if with a wizard force I might
  Have summoned whomsoever I would name,

  15 lines
• Charles Carville's Eyes

  A melanholy face Charles Carville had,
  But not so melancholy as it seemed,

  15 lines
• Clavering

  I say no more for Clavering
  Than I should say of him who fails

  59 lines
• Cliff Klingenhagen

  Cliff Klingenhagen had me in to dine
  With him one day; and after soup and meat,

  15 lines
• Demos

  I
  All you that are enamored of my name

  34 lines
• Discovery

  We told of him as one who should have soared
  And seen for us the devastating light

  15 lines
• Doctor of Billiards

  Of all among the fallen from on high,
  We count you last and leave you to regain

  15 lines
• Erasmus

  When he protested, not too solemnly,
  That for a world’s achieving maintenance

  15 lines
• Exit

  For what we owe to other days,
  Before we poisoned him with praise,

  14 lines
• George Crabbe

  Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
  Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—

  15 lines
• Hillcrest

  No sound of any storm that shakes
  Old island walls with older seas

  65 lines
• Horace to Leuconoë

  I pray you not, Leuconoë, to pore
  With unpermitted eyes on what may be

  15 lines
• How Annandale Went Out

  “They called it Annandale—and I was there
  To flourish, to find words, and to attend:

  15 lines
• Inferential

  Although I saw before me there the face
  Of one whom I had honored among men

  15 lines
• Isaac and Archibald

  Isaac and Archibald were two old men.
  I knew them, and I may have laughed at them

  429 lines
• Job the Rejected

  They met, and overwhelming her distrust
  With penitence, he praised away her fear;

  15 lines
• John Brown

  Though for your sake I would not have you now
  So near to me tonight as now you are,

  204 lines
• John Gorham

  “Tell me what you’re doing over here, John Gorham,
  Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when you’re not;

  49 lines
• Lancelot

  Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot
  In the King’s garden, coughed and followed him;

  226 lines
• Late Summer

  Confused, he found her lavishing feminine
  Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable;

  84 lines
• Lazarus

  “No, Mary, there was nothing—not a word.
  Nothing, and always nothing. Go again

  321 lines
• Leffingwell

  I—THE LURE
  No, no,—forget your Cricket and your Ant,

  50 lines
• L'envoy

  Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word,
  Now in a voice that thrills eternity,

  14 lines
• Leonora

  They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground,
  And with cedar they have woven the four walls round.

  14 lines
• Lingard and the Stars

  The table hurled itself, to our surprise,
  At Lingard, and anon rapped eagerly:

  15 lines
• Lisette and Eileen

  “When he was here alive, Eileen,
  There was a word you might have said;

  44 lines
• Llewellyn and the Tree

  Could he have made Priscilla share
  The paradise that he had planned,

  149 lines
• London Bridge

  “Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing—and what of it?
  Have you come with eyes afire to find me now and ask me that?

  168 lines
• Many Are Called

  The Lord Apollo, who has never died,
  Still holds alone his immemorial reign,

  15 lines
• Merlin

  “Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see,
  So far beyond the faint edge of the world?

  226 lines
• Modernities

  Small knowledge have we that by knowledge met
  May not some day be quaint as any told

  15 lines
• Monadnock through the Trees

  Before there was in Egypt any sound
  Of those who reared a more prodigious means

  15 lines
• Nimmo

  Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive
  At such a false and florid and far drawn

  89 lines
• Old Trails

  I met him, as one meets a ghost or two,
  Between the gray Arch and the old Hotel

  125 lines
• Old King Cole

  In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole
  A wise old age anticipate,

  89 lines
• On the Night of a Friend's Wedding

  If ever I am old, and all alone,
  I shall have killed one grief, at any rate;

  15 lines
• On the Way

  (PHILADELPHIA, 1794)
  NOTE.—The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in Am

  340 lines
• Partnership

  Yes, you have it; I can see.
  Beautiful?… Dear, look at me!

  53 lines
• Pasa Thalassa Thalassa

  Gone—faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? 
  Gone for a decade, they say: never a word or a sign. 

  40 lines
• Peace on Earth

  He took a frayed hat from his head,
  And “Peace on Earth” was what he said.

  77 lines
• Rahel to Varnhagen

  NOTE.—Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage—so far as he was concerned at any rate—ap

  260 lines
• Recalled

  Long after there were none of them alive
  About the place—where there is now no place

  15 lines
• Rembrandt to Rembrandt

  And there you are again, now as you are.
  Observe yourself as you discern yourself

  334 lines
• Sainte-Nitouche

  Though not for common praise of him,
  Nor yet for pride or charity,

  234 lines
• Shadrach O'Leary

  O’Leary was a poet—for a while:
  He sang of many ladies frail and fair,

  15 lines
• Siege Perilous

  Long warned of many terrors more severe
  To scorch him than hell’s engines could awaken,

  24 lines
• Sonnet 32: The Children of the Night

  Oh for a poet—for a beacon bright 
  To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray; 

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Stafford's Cabin

  Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man;
  And something happened here before my memory began.

  34 lines
• Zola

  Because he puts the compromising chart
  Of hell before your eyes, you are afraid;

  15 lines
• Vickery's Mountain

  Blue in the west the mountain stands,
  And through the long twilight

  69 lines
• Veteran Sirens

  The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now
  To laugh at them, were she to see them here,

  24 lines
• Verlaine

  Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers
  To touch the covered corpse of him that fled

  15 lines
• Variations of Greek Themes

  I
  A HAPPY MAN

  164 lines
• Two Sonnets

  I
  Just as I wonder at the twofold screen

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Two Quatrains

  I
  As eons of incalculable strife

  11 lines
• Two Gardens in Linndale

  Two brothers, Oakes and Oliver,
  Two gentle men as ever were,

  113 lines
• Twilight Song

  Through the shine, through the rain
  We have shared the day’s load;

  51 lines
• The Wise Brothers

  FIRST VOICE
  So long adrift, so fast aground,

  23 lines
• The Wilderness

  Come away! come away! there’s a frost along the marshes,
  And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it shakes the dead black water;

  41 lines
• The White Lights

  (BROADWAY, 1906)
  

  27 lines
• The Whip

  The doubt you fought so long
  The cynic net you cast,

  44 lines
• The Wandering Jew

  I saw by looking in his eyes
  That they remembered everything;

  107 lines
• The Voice of Age

  She'd look upon us, if she could,
  As hard as Rhadamanthus would;

  35 lines
• The Valley of the Shadow

  There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow,
  There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget;

  80 lines
• The Tree in Pamela's Garden

  Pamela was too gentle to deceive
  Her roses. “Let the men stay where they are,”

  15 lines
• The Torrent

  I found a torrent falling in a glen
  Where the sun’s light shone silvered and leaf-split;

  14 lines
• The Three Taverns

  When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.—(Acts xxviii, 15)
  

  350 lines
• The Tavern

  Whenever I go by there nowadays
  And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass,

  15 lines
• The Sunken Crown

  Nothing will hold him longer—let him go;
  Let him go down where others have gone down;

  15 lines
• The Sage

  Foreguarded and unfevered and serene,
  Back to the perilous gates of Truth he went—

  15 lines
• The Return of Morgan and Fingal

  And there we were together again—
  Together again, we three:

  109 lines
• The Revealer

  (ROOSEVELT)
  He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion … And the men of the

  73 lines
• The Rat

  As often as he let himself be seen
  We pitied him, or scorned him, or deplored

  15 lines
• The Poor Relation

  No longer torn by what she knows
  And sees within the eyes of others,

  80 lines
• The Pity of the Leaves

  Vengeful across the cold November moors,
  Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak

  15 lines
• The Pilot

  From the Past and Unavailing
  Out of cloudland we are steering:

  26 lines
• Theophilus

  By what serene malevolence of names
  Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus?

  24 lines
• The Old King's New Jester

  You that in vain would front the coming order
  With eyes that meet forlornly what they must,

  39 lines
• The New Tenants

  The day was here when it was his to know
  How fared the barriers he had built between

  15 lines
• The Man Against the Sky

  Between me and the sunset, like a dome
  Against the glory of a world on fire,

  322 lines
• The Long Race

  Up the old hill to the old house again
  Where fifty years ago the friend was young

  15 lines
• The Klondike

  Never mind the day we left, or the day the women clung to us;
  All we need now is the last way they looked at us.

  83 lines
• The Growth of Lorraine

  I
  While I stood listening, discreetly dumb,

  33 lines
• The Garden

  There is a fenceless garden overgrown
  With buds and blossoms and all sorts of leaves;

  15 lines
• The False Gods

  “We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit,
  From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet.

  34 lines
• The Dead Village

  Here there is death. But even here, they say,
  Here where the dull sun shines this afternoon

  15 lines
• The Clinging Vine

  “Be calm? And was I frantic?
  You’ll have me laughing soon.

  107 lines
• The Chorus of Old Men in Aegus

  Ye gods that have a home beyond the world,
  Ye that have eyes for all man’s agony,

  47 lines
• The Burning Book

  [OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN]
  TO the lore of no manner of men 

  36 lines
• The Book of Annandale

  I
  Partly to think, more to be left alone,

  559 lines
• The Altar

  Alone, remote, nor witting where I went,
  I found an altar builded in a dream—

  15 lines
• Tasker Norcross

  “Whether all towns and all who live in them—
  So long as they be somewhere in this world

  335 lines

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