Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols Face Poems

• 1. The Stranger
  Never am I so alone
  As when I walk among the crowd -
  Blurred masks of stern or grinning stone,
  Unmeaning eyes and voices loud.
  ...
• 2. Fulfilment
  Was there love once? I have forgotten her.
  Was there grief once? grief yet is mine.
  Other loves I have, men rough, but men who stir
  More grief, more joy, than love of thee and thine.
  ...
• 3. The Philosopher's Oration
  (From 'A Faun's Holiday')
  
  
  Meanwhile, though nations in distress
  ...
• 4. November
  As I walk the misty hill
  All is languid, fogged, and still;
  Not a note of any bird
  Nor any motion's hint is heard,
  ...
• 5. The Sprig Of Lime
  He lay, and those who watched him were amazed
  To see unheralded beneath the lids
  Twin tears, new-gathered at the price of pain,
  Start and at once run crookedly athwart
  ...
• 6. To ---
  Asleep within the deadest hour of night
  And turning with the earth, I was aware
  How suddenly the eastern curve was bright,
  As when the sun arises from his lair.
  ...
• 7. The Tower
  It was deep night, and over Jerusalem's low roofs
  The moon floated, drifting through high vaporous woofs.
  The moonlight crept and glistened silent, solemn, sweet,
  Over dome and column, up empty, endless street;
  ...

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