Poems by Benjamin Franklin Field

Straight is the line of beauty,
Nor curved as often said:
Look far away o'er ocean,
Across ...

Two thousand years ago,
Before a slave of Caesar,
There stood a man
That was a King.
And th...

O, city of a poet's dream!
By mountains girt about,
With valleys full of glossy gleam
Or ora...

Gods and Devils all my heroes,
Hell and Heaven each my tryst,
With my claws upon the pulsing,...

Brown and bare the desert,
Under a sun-cursed sky--
Far the stretch of the sand hills,
To th...

Music! Unveiled hast thou another sphere;
And over seas of azure clear,
On wings now slow, n...

Bedeviled by grin Satanic,
Hiding human heart beats,
Fate walked in early morning,
With me,...

Ocean, pray, how deep are you?
Ocean wide, how old?
Could I but wander, wander through
You...

Bury in cold and chilly earth
Unfeeling, chilly hearts--
To her embrace let them return
From ...

Give me one warm kiss!
I ask no more.
I know you love me not,
But give me this
And I will ho...

Thou art the deep and mystic sea
That laps against the hurrying feet
Of men and calms their idl...

Mute and unshaped, in marble hills,
Are untouched Mercurys lying,
Fairer of form, with powe...

Sappho! Sleeping still alone!
The moon and Pleiades have set,
Full half the lovely night has f...

Daughter of brawn, with weary face,
Rough cap in the arching stone,
The home she holds in it...

Ethereal dweller, neath southern skies,
With shining, yellow hair
Where gloom awing with wis...