One summer day, along the street, Men pruned the gums To make them neat. The tender branches, white with fl… Lay in the sun

I know a room that’s dark in dayti… No sunbeams light it, Whether in months of gloom or mont… So people slight it. Yet in the noon of each succeeding…

I in the library, Looking for books to read, Pulled one out twice to see If it fulfilled my need. Butler had written this

They say—priests say— That God loves the world. Maybe he does, When the dew is pearl’d On the emerald grass,

O great golden head lie in my lap, Sweet, sweet, lie there. Sleep and I’ll watch thee lest ev… Sweet, sweet and fair. O great golden head lie on my brea…

My window pane is broken Just a bit Where the small curtain doesn’t Cover it. And in the afternoon

I’m not his wife. I am his paramo… His wayside love, picked up in jou… Rose of the hedgerows; fragrant, t… Me down beside the ditch, a droope… Some country boy may stick into hi…

I have golden shoes To make me fleet. They are like the wind Underneath my feet. When my lover’s kiss

Today when you went up the hill And all that I could see Was just a speck of black and whit… Very far from me, It seemed more strange than words…

You who are dead, Do you know They’ve dug up half the irises That used to grow Here in the quadrangle a year ago?

Sometimes I wish that I were Hel… And wise as Pallas, That I might have most royal gift… In love’s sweet chalice. Then I reflect my dear love is no…

Sometimes I think the happiest of… Is the blest moment of release fro… The world once more is all one’s o… Upon one’s own and not another’s p… And each poor heart imprisoned by…

I made a heaven for you filled wit… Each star a song Meant to give happy music to your… Day and night long. But in your workshop you are close…

When I am so worn out I cannot sl… And yet I know I have to work nex… Or lose my job, I sometimes have… To one long dead, who listens when… I ask Saint Rose of Lima for the…

I love to see Her looking up at me, Stretched on a bed In her pink dressing gown, Her arms above her head,