Margaret Of Cortona (Edith Wharton Poems)
Fra Paolo, since they say the end is near,And you of all men have the gentlest eyes,Most like our father ...
Edith Wharton Poems on Soul (12 Poems)
The Mortal Lease (Edith Wharton Poems)
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
The Comrade (Edith Wharton Poems)
WILD winged thing, O brought I know not whence To beat your life out in my life's low cage; You ...
A Torchbearer (Edith Wharton Poems)
Great cities rise and have their fall; the brassThat held their glories moulders in its turn.Hard granite rots like an ...
A Grave (Edith Wharton Poems)
Though life should comeWith all its marshalled honours, trump and drum,To proffer you the captaincy of someResounding exploit, that shall ...
Non Dolet! (Edith Wharton Poems)
Age after age the fruit of knowledge fallsTo ashes on men's lips;Love fails, faith sickens, like a dying treeLife sheds ...
Battle Sleep (Edith Wharton Poems)
SOMEWHERE, O sun, some corner there must beThou visitest, where down the strandQuietly, still, the waves go out to seaFrom ...
Phaedra (Edith Wharton Poems)
NOT that on me the Cyprian fury fell,Last martyr of my love-ensanguined race;Not that my children drop the averted faceWhen ...
A Failure (Edith Wharton Poems)
(She Speaks.)I MEANT to be so strong and true!The world may smile and question, When?But what I might have been ...
Mona Lisa (Edith Wharton Poems)
Yon strange blue city crowns a scarped steepNo mortal foot hath bloodlessly essayed:Dreams and illusions beacon from its keep.But at ...
Uses (Edith Wharton Poems)
AH, from the niggard tree of TimeHow quickly fall the hours!It needs no touch of wind or rimeTo loose such ...
Jade (Edith Wharton Poems)
THE patient craftsman of the East who madeHis undulant dragons of the veined jade,And wound their sinuous volutes round the ...