[tabby title="Poem"] (to Amal)Musical Child of May, spirit fierce and fair!Born to Spring when the cricket cheers, orDrowsy nightingale weeps in melody, to begetA new breed that in future glory may rhyme--Here to the twenty, and a thousand to come,Of...

[tabby title="Poem"] Come and see how I cryForever without tears,And the years wane and wax,With me waiting for you; Come and see this soulThat has yet to learn to laugh,And how life wearsOn a heart wandering meaningless in Time; Without...

[tabby title="Poem"] (to my sister, Fowsia Abdulkadir) Let there be no pretense to sadness, or mourningin vain Over this humble grave---my long-lost home whereat last I return To---where all content lived before ambition droveus all insane, For it's been this...

[tabby title="Poem"] "To part at last without kiss,Beside the haystack in the floods."-William Morris. I cannot give you reasons enough,I do not myself understand The loud lover, praying in sin,Or the pain of those who sin in prayer. A good-bye...

[tabby title="Poem"] There's no other to grieve yourlost hope,It's for you to face and cope;With life's various despairs byyourself alone,And alone must, wrestle andhave it won;Family would smile with you butfor a moment,And no friend could vouchsafefor you on Day...