The Fear (John Freeman Poems)
Surely I must have ailed On that dark night,Or my childish courage failed Because there was no light;Or terror must have come With ...
John Freeman Poems on Night (62 Poems)
The Streets (John Freeman Poems)
Marlboro' and Waterloo and Trafalgar,Tuileries, Talavera, Valenciennes,Were strange names all, and all familiar;For down their streets I went, early and ...
The Bright Rider (John Freeman Poems)
All the night through I drankSleep like water or cool cider;Life flowed over and I sankDown below the night of ...
Change (John Freeman Poems)
A late and lonely figure stains the snow, Into the thickening darkness dims and dies.Heavily homeward now the last rooks go, And ...
Fair Eve (John Freeman Poems)
Fair Eve, as fair and stillAs fairest thought, climbs the high sheltering hill;As still and fairAs the white cloud asleep ...
The Wakers (John Freeman Poems)
The joyous morning ran and kissed the grassAnd drew his fingers through her sleeping hair,And cried, 'Before thy flowers are ...
The Escape (John Freeman Poems)
Like one who runsFearful at night, he knows not why,Dreading the loneliness, yet shunsThe highway's casual company; Wherefore he hastes,The friendly ...
The Red House (John Freeman Poems)
On the wide fields the water gleams like snow,And snow like water pale beneath pale sky,When old and burdened the ...
Some Hurt Thing (John Freeman Poems)
I came to you quietly when you were lying In perfect midnight sleep.Your dark soft hair was all about your pillow, So ...
Foreboding (John Freeman Poems)
O linger late, poor yellow whispering leaves! As yet the evesAre golden and the simple moon looks through The clouds and you.O ...
Music Comes (John Freeman Poems)
Music comesSweetly from the trembling stringWhen wizard fingers sweepDreamily, half asleep;When through remembering reedsAncient airs and murmurs creep,Oboe oboe following,Flute ...
Absence (John Freeman Poems)
Distance no grace can lend you, but for meDistance yet magnifies your mystery.With you, and soon content, I ask how ...
Caterpillars (John Freeman Poems)
Of caterpillars Fabre tells how day after day Around the rim of a vast earth pot they crawled, Tricked thither as they ...
Against The Cold Pale Sky (John Freeman Poems)
Against the cold pale skyThe elm tree company rose high.All the fine hues of dayThat flowered so bold had died ...
Wonder (John Freeman Poems)
Following upon the faint wind's fickle courses A feather drifts and strays. My thought after her thought Floated--how many ways and days!She swayed ...
The Call (John Freeman Poems)
Is it the wind that stirs the trees,Is it the trees that scratch the wall, Is it the wall that shakes ...
Hector (John Freeman Poems)
Sleep, sleep, you great and dim trees, sleeping onThe still warm, tender cheek of night,And with her cloudy hairBrushed: sleep, ...
Stay (John Freeman Poems)
Stay, thou desired one, stay!Brighten the curious darkness of the world.Cold through the chill dark swings the sleeping world,Sense-heavy, dreaming ...
Fair And Brief (John Freeman Poems)
So fair, that all the morning aches With such monotony!So brief, that sadness breaks The brittle spell.Nothing so fair, nothing so brief: The ...
The Candle (John Freeman Poems)
Time like a cloudHas risen from the EastAnd whelmed the sky overEven to the wide-arched West,Darkening the blue,Embrowning the early ...
Prayer To My Lord (John Freeman Poems)
If ever Thou didst love me, love me now, When round me beat the flattering vans of life, Kissing with rapid breath ...
Earth To Earth (John Freeman Poems)
What is the soul? Is it the windAmong the branches of the mind?Is it the sea against Time's shoreBreaking and ...
The Wanderer (John Freeman Poems)
Over the pool of sleepThe night mists creep,Then faint thin light and then clear day,Noontide, and lingering afternoon;Then that Wanderer, ...
The Beam (John Freeman Poems)
The dead white on the fields' dead whiteTurned the peace to misery.Tall bony trees their wild arms thrustInto the cold ...
The Mouse (John Freeman Poems)
Standing close by youIn the cold lightOf two tall candlesThat measure the dark of night,I hear the mouse,The only thing ...
Dark Chestnut (John Freeman Poems)
Thou shaking thy dark shadows down,Like leaves before the first leaves fall,Pourest upon the head of nightHer loveliest loveliness of ...
Stars (John Freeman Poems)
The naked stars, deep beyond deep,Burn purely through the nerved night. Over the narrow sleep Of men tired of light;Deep within deep, ...
Listening (John Freeman Poems)
There is a place of grassWith daisies like white pools,Or shining islands in a seaOf brightening waves.Swallows, darting, brushThe waves ...
Take Care, Take Care (John Freeman Poems)
Bind up, bind up your dark bright hair And hide the smouldering sunken fire.Let it be held no more than fair,Nor ...
Night And Night (John Freeman Poems)
The earth is purple in the evening light,The grass is graver green.The gold among the meadows darker glows,In the quieted ...