Night Thoughts In Age (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Light, that out of the west looked back once moreThrough lids of cloud, has closed a sleepy eye;The heaven of ...
John Hall Wheelock Poems (25 Poems)
Earth (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Grasshopper, your fairy songAnd my poem alike belongTo the dark and silent earthFrom which all poetry has birth;All we say ...
My Lovely One (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Even as a hawk's in the large heaven's hollowAre the great ways and gracious of your love,No lesser heart or ...
Sunday Evening In The Common (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Look-on the topmost branches of the world The blossoms of the myriad stars are thick; Over the huddled rows of stone and ...
Aphrodite (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Dark-eyed, out of the snow-cold sea you came,The young blood under the cheek like dawn-light showing,Stray tendrils of dark hair ...
Spring (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
The air is full of dawn and spring; Outside the room I see A swallow, like a shaft of light, ...
The Unknown Beloved (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
I dreamed I passed a doorwayWhere, for a sign of death,White ribbons one was bindingAbout a flowery wreath.What drew me ...
In The Dark City (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
There is a harper playsThrough the long watches of the lonely nightWhen, like a cemetery,Sleeps the dark city, with her ...
Like Music (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Your body's motion is like music; Her stride ecstatical and bright Moves to the rhythm of dumb music, The unheard ...
In The Solitude (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Give me your pitiful, soft hand, and layYour cheek against my shoulder, let your headRest heavily, and your loose hair ...
Love knocks At The Door (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
In the pain, in the loneliness of love,To the heart of my sweet I fled.I knocked at the door of ...
The Black Panther (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
There is a panther caged within my breast,But what his name, there is no breast shall knowSave mine, nor what ...
The Letter (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
The night is measureless, no voice, no cry,Pierces the dark in which the planet swings --It is the shadow of ...
This Quiet Dust (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Here in my curving hands I cupThis quiet dust; I lift it up.Here is the mother of all thought;Of this ...
The Panther (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
His gaze through the bars forever going by himHas grown so dulled it takes in nothing else.To him it seems ...
Exile From God (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
I do not fear to lay my body downIn death, to shareThe life of the dark earth and lose my ...
The Thunder-Show (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
The lightning flashed, and lifted The lids of heaven apart, The fiery thunder rolled you All night long through my ...
Earth take me back…. (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
I have been dying a long timeIn this cool valley-land, this green bowl ringed by hills—The cup of a giant ...
Alone (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Ah, never in all my life Have I ever fled away From the loneliness that follows My spirit night and ...
A Sun, Which Is A Star (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
"A sun, a shadow of a magnitude,"So Keats has written— yet what, truly, couldCome closer to pure godhead than a ...
Departure (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
The twilight is starred,The dawn has arisen;Light breaks from the eastAnd Song from her prison.Faint odors and soundsThe west-wind disclosesOf ...
Nirvana (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Sleep on — I lie at heaven's high oriels,Over the stars that murmur as they goLighting your lattice-window far below;And ...
Hour Before Sleep (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Evening— and I, in the hour before sleep,Lean out once more, and stareSkyward, at you, bright star, deep, deepDown some ...
Life (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Life burns us up like fire,And Song goes up in flame:The radiant body smoldersTo the ashes whence it came.Out of ...
Circular Secret (John Hall Wheelock Poems)
Leave starry heaven behind,Enter the atom, shrinkInto the vast, and findYou stand upon the brinkOf starry heaven again—There where you ...