Harlequinade (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
NIGHT is dying, dawn is hieingThrough the darkness, while I waitUnderneath your window late,Deeply dreaming, deeply sighingFor a vision fair ...
Justin H. McCarthy Poems on Fairness (15 Poems)
Columbine (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
ONCE while I sat and watched the stageDull as a desert wanting her,And wondered at the latest pageOf my life's ...
At A Distance (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
DEAR, you are farther off from meThan my gaunt garret from the sky,Or parching desert from the sea,Or sound of ...
If I were King (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
If I were king--ah love, if I were king! What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to ...
A Star (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FRAMED in the darkness or the door ajar,You paused a moment while the midnight airFluttered its kisses on your eyes ...
Good-Night (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
SWEETHEART, here's a fair good-nightTo the golden year that's flying,Fading as an emperor might,Soothed by laughter to delight,On a throne ...
At Westminster (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
THROUGH the great hall, the heart of England's storyAcross the Lobby's tesselated floor,Through many a sombre oaken corridor,You moved in ...
Forgive (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FORGIVE me, dear and, if you can, forget,As all things are forgotten soon or late,Desire and satisfaction, love and hate,Pleasure ...
Vita Nuova (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
DEAR, that I love you let me rather showBy striving to amend this life of mineSo marred from the ideal ...
Salutation (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I WHO have wandered over half the earth,Have sailed how many a mysterious sea,How many a sacred river, yet to ...
Melpomene (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FAIR friend, you tread to your imperial goalThe gallery of Shakespeare's womanhood :Love-lost Ophelia, Egypt's varying mood,Pure Isabella, the relentless ...
Disappointment (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
ARE all things disappointment ? Must we turnIn this rank garden of life from tree to 'tree,Catching at fruit and ...
Rain (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
RAIN, rain against the windows,- and the windWhistles its dreary eerie lullabyBetween the drowned earth and the sodden skyThat is ...
Adieu! (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I CANNOT praise you, sweet; my verseLimps lamely on from bad to worse.Farewell, most fair farewell, most cruel !Shall I, ...
A Gift (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FAIR girl, you were gracious, and gave me a flower ;I swore, in poetical fashion,To keep it in exquisite pledge ...