The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

 On Christmas With footstep slow, in furry pall yclad,     His brows enwreathed with holly never-sear,     Old Christmas comes, to close the...

The Faery Chasm No fiction was it of the antique age: \A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft, Is of the very foot-marks unbereft Which...

  Ozymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . near them, on th...

Worship Service In a snowfall     that obscures the winter grasses a white heron – using his own form      to hide himself away. – Kigen Dog...

The Dimensions of the Milky Way      (Discovered by Harlow Shapley, 1918) Behind the men's dorm at dusk on a late May evening, Carver lo...

Dead The Winter is her lover now,     A brilliant one and bold; And she has gone away from me,     Estranged and white and cold. He painted ...

Air has no Residence, no Neighbor, No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e'en an Outcast's Pi...

Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe. The enemy increaseth every day; We, at the height, are ready to decline. There is a tide in the ...

 For Halloween week, two by Robert Herrick. The first: The Hag 1.     The hag is astride,          This night for to ride; The Devill and sh...

Frost Therefore, lest this inclement friend should maim Your valued plants, plunge pots within a frame Sunk deep in sand or ashes to the rim...

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ...