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 (68 Poems)
Alas! (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
Ah ! did you, dearest, understandHow love possessed and mastered me,Till all my being seemed to beWithin the hollow of ...
Leuconoe (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
HOPE not, beloved, to fathom with futile endeavour,Weaving devices of playing-cards ranged in a row,Knowledge to-day of the way that ...
Picaresque (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I BID ye farewell, ye fair ladiesWho captured my fancy of oldDear daughters of Venus, whose trade isTo barter your ...
My Books (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
ON level lines of woodwork standMy books obedient to my hand ;And Caesar pale against the wallSmiles sternly Roman over ...
Gifts (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
YOU give me gifts with a gracious handA red carnation, a yellow primroseMore saffron pale than the pale sea sandWhen ...
Fate (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
THE flower you gave will die, my dear,Its crimson petals must grow sere,Its odour faint, and fail and vanish :For ...
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 ...
Vale (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I HAVE little to rememberTwice or thrice I kissed your hand,Twice or thrice the glowing emberOf my poet's passion, fannedBy ...
The Happy Prince: To Oscar Wilde (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
AM I not grateful? Surely, never sinceThe Northern Master's heart and hand grew coldAs his own skies, have any tales ...
Ambition (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
OH that I were a wind, and free to blowSoftly against your faceThat I might float and murmur, breathing lowThe ...
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 ...
Memories (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I SAID I loved not memories, speaking sooth,For who would raise the ghost of buried pain,Lost love, dead dreams, and ...
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 ...
Palmistry (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
WHY, when I held your hand, could I not readThe lines therein that did to me presageThe sorrow that no ...
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 ...
Farewell (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
FAREWELL, my dear ! the pleasant dream is over,The pallid face of dawn defeats the night :I loose your hand, ...
New Year (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
IF verses, like the charms that wizards trace,Might promise all delight to ladies dear,What could I wish you for the ...
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 ...
Ghosts at Boulogne (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
One dreamer, when our English soldiers trodBut yesterday the welcoming fields of France,Saw war-gaunt shadows gathering stare askanceUpon those levies ...
Saint Rosalys (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
A fair girl in the mirror's polished planeGlancing to witness with a woman's prideThe silken stuffs, the gleaming gems that ...
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 ...
Pauline (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
WERE you Pauline, and I the gardener's son,I might as madly hunger to attainThe unattainable, as falsely feign,As nobly leave ...
A Red Letter Day (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
NOW God be praised for this enchanted day,Since joy was in the promise that it spelled,And joy in the fulfilment ...
A Wish (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
OH for some subtle juices quick to steepThe troubled brain in slumber, so to lieIn the dark vault of an ...
Gratitude (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
I THANK my fate for every memoryOf you and your sweet face and your soft name,Since to my eyes the ...
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 ...