Jeff Guess

Tarantella Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the...

To Mistress Margaret Hussey Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much...

Said Hanrahan ‘We'll all be rooned,’ said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Outside the church, ere Mass began, One frosty Sunday morn....

Dreaming in the Shanghai Restaurant I would like to be that elderly Chinese gentleman. He wears a gold watch with a gold bracelet, But a...

Sea-Fever I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And...

The Meadow Mouse 1 In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking Sleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow, Where he trembled and...

Long Distance II Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas, put hot water bottles her side of...

Love Minus Zero/No Limit My love she speaks like silence Without ideals or violence She doesn't have to say she's faithful Yet she's...

The Death of the Bird For every bird there is this last migration: Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage to...

The Listeners ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the...