#Americans #Women
All that I know of love I see In eyes that never look at me; All that I know of love I guess But from another’s happiness. A beggar at the window I,
Below them in the twilight the qui… And warm within its holding, the o… But here within the open fields th… And, hand in hand, across them the… Below them in the village are peac…
For mocking on men’s faces He only sees instead The hidden, hundred traces Of tears their eyes have shed. Above their lips denying,
High above his happy head Little leaves of Spring were spre… And adown the dewy lawn Soft as moss the young green grass Wooed his footsteps, and the dawn
My love it should be silent, being… And being very peaceful should be… Still as the utmost depths of ocea… Serenely silent as some mighty hil… Yet is my love so great it needs m…
April will come to the quiet town That I left long ago, Scattering primroses up and down’… Row upon happy row. (Oh, little green lane, will she c…
I never climb a high hill Or gaze across the lea, But, Oh, beyond the two of them, Beyond the height and blue of them… I’m looking for the sea.
Mothers of men—the words are good… Pride in the very sound of them, s… Why is it their faces haunt me, wi… Ever some dear thing vanished and… Mothers of Men?
The three ghosts on the lonesome r… Spake each to one another, “Whence came that stain about your… No lifted hand may cover?” “From eating of forbidden fruit,
I said I will go back again where… Were glad together. But my dear,… Where are the roses we were wont t… The songs we used to hear? I said the hearth-flame that once…
A hundred miles between us Could never part us more Than that one step you took from m… What time my need was sore. A hundred years between us
My life has been like a bee that r… Through a scented garden close, And ’tis I who have kept the hone… The hoarded sweetness and scent th… For all I forget the rose.
The Angel of the night when night… High upon Heaven’s ramparts, crie… And wheeling worlds grew radiant w… And undiminished glory of the sun. And Angel, Seraph, Saint and Che…
We are the keepers of that steadfa… that guides people’s course and de… Not ours the skill directing over… the might beams that blaze the pat… Ours but the hands that, serving,…
What do they know of youth, who st… They but the singers of a golden s… Who may not guess its worth or won… Like largesse to the throng. We only,—young no longer,—old so l…