Tacita (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
She roves through shadowy solitudes, Where scentless herbs and fragile flowersPine in the gloom that ever broods Around her sylvan bowers.No winds ...
James Benjamin Kenyon Poems (7 Poems)
Bring Them Not Back (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
Yet, O my friend-pale conjurer, I callThee friend-bring, bring the dead not back again,Since for the tears, the darkness and ...
Death and Night (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
The bearded grass waves in the summer breeze;The sunlight sleeps along the distant hills;Faint is the music of the murmuring ...
Estranged (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
THEY met, and all the world was fair;Fair, too, were they as any pairOf birds of paradise;They met, and never ...
Quatrains (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
The Bedouins Of The SkiesYON clouds that roam the deserts of the air, On wind-swift barbs, o'er many an azure plain,Scarce ...
Come Slowly, Paradise (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
O dawn upon me slowly, Paradise! Come not too suddenly,Lest my just-opened, unaccustomed eyes Smitten with blindness be.To those who from Time's ...
A Challenge (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
ARISE, O soul, and gird thee up anew, Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;No beggar thou that ...