Sleep (John Freeman Poems)
Not a dream brush your sleep,Not a thought wake and creepIn upon your spirit's slumber;Not a memory encumber,Nor a thievish ...
John Freeman Poems (200 Poems)
Sleeping Sea (John Freeman Poems)
The seaWas even as a little child that sleepsAnd keepsAll night its great unconsciousness of day.No sprayFlashed when the wave ...
Hallo! (John Freeman Poems)
"Hallo, hallo!" impatiently he cried,And I replied,Sleepily, "Hallo--hallo!"No sound then; and I stretchedMy hand for the receiver, all my nervesTingling ...
The Glass (John Freeman Poems)
Your face has lostThe clearness it once wore,And your brow smooth and whiteIts look of light;Your eyes that wereSo careless, ...
More Than Sweet (John Freeman Poems)
The noisy fire,The drumming wind,The creaking trees,And all that humOf summer airAnd all the long inquietudeOf breaking seas----Sweet and delightful ...
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 ...
Memorial (John Freeman Poems)
The wild October skyRises not so high,The tree's roots that creepInto the earth's body thrust not so deepAs our high ...
The Hounds (John Freeman Poems)
Far off a lonely houndTelling his loneliness all roundTo the dark woods, dark hills, and darker sea;And, answering, the soundOf ...
Wisdom And A Mother (John Freeman Poems)
Why, mourner, do you mourn, nor seeThe heavenly Earth's felicity?I mourn for him, my Dearest, lost,Who lived a frail life ...
Stones (John Freeman Poems)
Small yellow stonesThat, lifted, through my idle fingers fallLeaving a score--And these I toss between the parted lipsOf the lapping ...
Under The Linden Branches (John Freeman Poems)
Under the linden branchesThey sit and whisper;Hardly a quiverOf leaves, hardly a lisp orSigh in the air.Under the linden branchesThey ...
The Shade (John Freeman Poems)
I saw him as he wentWith merry voice and eye.I met him when he cameBack, tired but the same--The same ...
The Return (John Freeman Poems)
I heard the rumbling guns. I saw the smoke, The unintelligible shock of hosts that still,Far off, unseeing, strove and strove ...
Childhood Calls (John Freeman Poems)
Come over, come over the deepening river,Come over again the dark torrent of years,Come over, come back where the green ...
The Holy Mountains (John Freeman Poems)
The holy mountains,The gay streams,Heavy shadows,And tall, trembling trees;The light that sleepsBetween the heavy shadows,Wind that creepsFaintly, from far-off seas----The ...
The Answer (John Freeman Poems)
O, my feet have worn a trackDeep and old in going back.Thought released turns to its homeAs bees through tangling ...
The Enemies (John Freeman Poems)
The angry windThat cursed at meWas nothing but an evil spriteVexed with any man's delight.And strange it seemedThat a dark ...
Lonely Airs (John Freeman Poems)
Ah, bird singing late in the gloamWhile the evening shadow thickens,And the dizzy bat-wings roam,And the faint starlight quickens; And her ...
The Unthrift (John Freeman Poems)
Here in the shade of the treeThe hours go bySilent and swift,Lightly as birds fly.Then the deep clouds broaden and ...
Dark And Strange (John Freeman Poems)
When first Love came, then was I but a boySwept with delirium of undreamt joy.Now Love comes to a man ...