#AmericanWriters
With swift Great sweep of her Magnificent arm my pain Clanged back the doors that shut m… From life.
If it Were lighter touch Than petal of flower resting On grass, oh still too heavy it we… Too heavy!
Joy! Joy! Joy! The hills are glad, The valleys re-echo with merriment… In my heart is the sound of laught… And my feet dance to the time of i…
Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I’ll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun’s Gold flood.
A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angelique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find,
Madonna, Madonnina Sat by the grey road-side, Saint Joseph her beside, And Our Lord at her breast; Oh they were fain to rest,
A-sway, On red rose, A golden butterfly. . And on my heart a butterfly Night-wing’d.
The shadowy boy of night Crosses the dusking land; He sows his poppy-seeds With steady, gentle hand. The shadowy boy of night
‘WHY do You thus devise Evil against her?’ ‘For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.’
The cold With steely clutch Grips all the land. .alack The little people in the hills Will die!
The morning is new and the skies a… The day cometh in with the sun and… Hasten, belov’ed! For see, while you were yet sleepi… The cool and virgin feet of dawn w…
(Girl’s Song) In Babylon, in Nineveh, And long ago, and far away, The lilies and the lotus blew That are my sweet of youth to-day.
Heard ye the maidens Went through the meadows, Early, O, early, While yet the dew was Wet on the grass?
Oh me, Was there a time When Paradise knew Eve In this sweet guise, so placid and
(1) The rose new-opening saith, And the dew of the morning saith, (Fallen leaves and vanished dew) Remember death.