Francis Turner

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1. In Fountain Court The fountain murmuring of sleep, A drowsy tune; The flickering green of leaves that keep The light of June; Peace, […]...
2. St. Francis of Assisi Would I might wake St. Francis in you all, Brother of birds and trees, God’s Troubadour, Blinded with weeping for […]...
3. The New Faces If you, that have grown old, were the first dead, Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime Should hear my living […]...
4. Of St. Francis and the Ass Our father, ere he went Out with his brother, Death, Smiling and well-content As a bridegroom goeth, Sweetly forgiveness prayed […]...
5. To Any Reader As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will […]...
6. O Blush Not So! O blush not so! O blush not so! Or I shall think you knowing; And if you smile the blushing […]...
7. Henry Clay's Mouth Senator, statesman, speaker of the House, Exceptional dancer, slim, Graceful, ugly. Proclaimed, before most, slavery An evil, broker Of elections […]...
8. Kissing time ‘T is when the lark goes soaring And the bee is at the bud, When lightly dancing zephyrs Sing over […]...
9. 481. Epigram on Andrew Turner IN se’enteen hunder’n forty-nine, The deil gat stuff to mak a swine, An’ coost it in a corner; But wilily […]...
10. Ourselves were wed one summer dear Ourselves were wed one summer dear Your Vision was in June And when Your little Lifetime failed, I wearied too […]...
11. St. Francis and the Birds Little sisters, the birds: We must praise God, you and I­ You, with songs that fill the sky, I, with […]...
12. There was a Child Once There was a child once. He came to play in my garden; He was quite pale and silent. Only when […]...
13. Journey Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow […]...
14. Envoy For "A Child's Garden Of Verses&quot WHETHER upon the garden seat You lounge with your uplifted feet Under the May’s whole Heaven of blue; Or whether […]...
15. Love Song My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet […]...
16. Learning the Trees Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn The language of the trees. That’s done indoors, Out of […]...
17. Song (Sylvia The Fair, In The Bloom Of Fifteen) Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen, Felt an innocent warmth as she lay on the green: She had […]...
18. St. Francis And The Sow The bud Stands for all things, Even those things that don’t flower, For everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; Though […]...
19. Francis Makemie (Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708) To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise […]...
20. Francis II, King of Naples Written after reading Trevelyan’s “Garibaldi And the making of Italy” Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain, Decaying victim of a race […]...
21. Berrying “May be true what I had heard, Earth’s a howling wilderness Truculent with fraud and force,” Said I, strolling through […]...
22. 279. Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary THE DEVIL got notice that Grose was a-dying So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; But when he […]...
23. Beautiful Balmerino Beautiful Balmermo on the bonnie banks of Tay, It’s a very bonnie spot in the months of June or May; […]...
24. The Den o' Fowlis Beautiful Den o’ Fowlis, most charming to be seen In the summer season, when your trees are green; Especially in […]...
25. Here Here I am in the garden laughing An old woman with heavy breasts And a nicely mapped face How did […]...
26. Adolescence There was a time when in late afternoon The four-o’clocks would fold up at day’s close Pink-white in prayer, and […]...
27. THE CARDINAL LOOKS BACK I was a good father to my people, Their houses among the terraced hills Adored God every day, grape-clusters on […]...
28. A June-Tide Echo (After a Richter Concert.) In the long, sad time, when the sky was grey, And the keen blast blew through […]...
29. Earth's Immortalities FAME. See, as the prettiest graves will do in time, Our poet’s wants the freshness of its prime; Spite of […]...
30. 'Twas Crisis All the length had passed ‘Twas Crisis All the length had passed That dull benumbing time There is in Fever or Event And now the […]...
31. Confessions What is he buzzing in my ears? “Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a […]...
32. Another Way Of Love I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When […]...
33. Behind a Wall I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, […]...
34. The Eavesdropper In a still room at hush of dawn, My Love and I lay side by side And heard the roaming […]...
35. Impression Du Matin The Thames nocturne of blue and gold Changed to a Harmony in grey: A barge with ochre-coloured hay Dropt from […]...
36. The Dreadful Has Already Happened The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly. They moisten their lips with their tongues. I can feel Them urging me […]...
37. In Faith When the soft sweet wind o’ the south went by, I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye; […]...
38. On – On – Poet I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street – Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That […]...
39. Tezcotzinco Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold, Thou wert sometime the garden of a king. The birds have […]...
40. Paudeen Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the […]...