Occupation: Poet Birth: March 26, 1859 Death: April 30, 1936
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away..
June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould..
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up..
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted st….
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead….
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not..
A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process..
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the n….
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the h….
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up fro….
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him be….
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine..
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone..
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me..
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were lo….
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles a….