Pomes Penyeach + 

Tilly + 

He travels after a winter sun, + 

Urging the cattle along a cold red road, + 

Calling to them, a voice they know, + 

He drives his beasts above Cabra. + 

The voice tells them home is warm. + 

They moo and make brute music with their hoofs. + 

He drives them with a flowering branch before him, + 

Smoke pluming their foreheads. + 

Boor, bond of the herd, + 

Tonight stretch full by the fire! + 

I bleed by the black stream + 

For my torn bough! + 

Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba + 

I heard their young hearts crying + 

Loveward above the glancing oar + 

And heard the prairie grasses sighing: + 

No more, return no more! + 

O hearts, O sighing grasses, + 

Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn! + 

No more will the wild wind that passes + 

Return, no more return. + 

A Flower Given to My Daughter + 

Frail the white rose and frail are + 

Her hands that gave + 

Whose soul is sere and paler + 

Than time’s wan wave. + 

Rosefrail and fair⁠—yet frailest + 

A wonder wild + 

In gentle eyes thou veilest, + 

My blueveined child. + 

She Weeps Over Rahoon + 

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling, + 

Where my dark lover lies. + 

Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling, + 

At grey moonrise. + 

Love, hear thou + 

How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling, + 

Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling, + 

Then as now. + 

Dark too our hearts, O love, shall lie and cold + 

As his sad heart has lain + 

Under the moongrey nettles, the black mould + 

And muttering rain. + 

Tutto è Sciolto + 

A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star + 

Piercing the west, + 

As thou, fond heart, love’s time, so faint, so far, + 

Rememberest. + 

The clear young eyes’ soft look, the candid brow, + 

The fragrant hair, + 

Falling as through the silence falleth now + 

Dusk of the air. + 

Why then, remembering those shy + 

Sweet lures, repine + 

When the dear love she yielded with a sigh + 

Was all but thine? + 

On the Beach at Fontana + 

Wind whines and whines the shingle, + 

The crazy pierstakes groan; + 

A senile sea numbers each single + 

Slimesilvered stone. + 

From whining wind and colder + 

Grey sea I wrap him warm + 

And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder + 

And boyish arm. + 

Around us fear, descending + 

Darkness of fear above + 

And in my heart how deep unending + 

Ache of love! + 

Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild + 

The moon a web of silence weaves + 

In the still garden where a child + 

Gathers the simple salad leaves. + 

A moondew stars her hanging hair + 

And moonlight kisses her young brow + 

And, gathering, she sings an air: + 

Fair as the wave is, fair, art thou! + 

Be mine, I pray, a waxen ear + 

To shield me from her childish croon + 

And mine a shielded heart for her + 

Who gathers simples of the moon. + 

Flood + 

Goldbrown upon the sated flood + 

The rockvine clusters lift and sway, + 

Vast wings above the lambent waters brood + 

Of sullen day. + 

A waste of waters ruthlessly + 

Sways and uplifts its weedy mane + 

Where brooding day stares down upon the sea + 

In dull disdain. + 

Uplift and sway, O golden vine, + 

Your clustered fruits to love’s full flood, + 

Lambent and vast and ruthless as in thine + 

Incertitude! + 

Nightpiece + 

Gaunt in gloom, + 

The pale stars their torches, + 

Enshrouded, wave. + 

Ghostfires from heaven’s far verges faint illume, + 

Arches on soaring arches, + 

Night’s sindark nave. + 

Seraphim, + 

The lost hosts awaken + 

To service till + 

In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim, + 

Raised when she has and shaken + 

Her thurible. + 

And long and loud, + 

To night’s nave upsoaring, + 

A starknell tolls + 

As the bleak insense surges, cloud on cloud, + 

Voidward from the adoring + 

Waste of souls. + 

Alone + 

The moon’s greygolden meshes make + 

All night a veil, + 

The shorelamps in the sleeping lake + 

Laburnum tendrils trail. + 

The sly reeds whisper to the night + 

A name⁠—her name⁠— + 

And all my soul is a delight, + 

A swoon of shame. + 

A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight + 

They mouth love’s language. Gnash + 

The thirteen teeth + 

Your lean jaws grin with. Lash + 

Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. + 

Love’s breath in you is stale, worded or sung, + 

As sour as cat’s breath, + 

Harsh of tongue. + 

This grey that stares + 

Lies not, stark skin and bone. + 

Leave greasy lips their kissing. None + 

Will choose her what you see to mouth upon. + 

Dire hunger holds his hour. + 

Pluck forth your heart, saltblood, a fruit of tears, + 

Pluck and devour! + 

Bahnhofstrasse + 

The eyes that mock me sign the way + 

Whereto I pass at eve of day, + 

Grey way whose violet signals are + 

The trysting and the twining star. + 

Ah star of evil! star of pain! + 

Highhearted youth comes not again + 

Nor old heart’s wisdom yet to know + 

The signs that mock me as I go. + 

A Prayer + 

Again! + 

Come, give, yield all your strength to me! + 

From far a low word breathes on the breaking brain + 

Its cruel calm, submission’s misery, + 

Gentling her awe as to a soul predestined. + 

Cease, silent love! My doom! + 

Blind me with your dark nearness, O have mercy, beloved enemy of my will! + 

I dare not withstand the cold touch that I dread. + 

Draw from me still + 

My slow life! Bend deeper on me, threatening head, + 

Proud by my downfall, remembering, pitying + 

Him who is, him who was! + 

Again! + 

Together, folded by the night, they lay on earth. I hear + 

From far her low word breathe on my breaking brain. + 

Come! I yield. Bend deeper upon me! I am here. + 

Subduer, do not leave me! Only joy, only anguish, + 

Take me, save me, soothe me, O spare me! + 