Unanswered (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
How shall I know her, God, in that great world,After the grief of this is past and gone?How shall I ...
How shall I know her, God, in that great world,After the grief of this is past and gone?How shall I ...
One told me he had heard it whispered: "Lo! The hour has come when Europe, desperate With sudden ...
April, when I heardYour lyrical low word,And when upon the hawthorn hedge your first white blossoms stirred,Something strangely came--Something I ...
This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,Live thro' the bleakness of the midnight ...
The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon,Pause, while a torrid sun flames in the sky.(O heart of mine, dream of ...
So hard I strove to crowd you from my heart,You who once loved, but love me now no more;Yet all ...
Thou hast come back to me!(Thou who didst die a year ago,And slept so many days beneath the snow)Thou hast ...
Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known the sun!Your little faces like sad blossoms seem,Shut in some room, there ...
How bravely now I face the marching days,With Youth's strong armor to defy the years!Nought now I know of the ...
When Eve grew old,How many a time she must have dreamed and dreamedOf her lost Eden, with gardens all of ...
She said to him, "Unless, when I am deadFrom out the green sod of my lowly graveA crimson rose should ...
The gray year drifted outAs a tired love might go,And there was no heart to breathe a songAcross the leagues ...
Down his great corridors of sumptuous soundToday I wandered once again. Each wordSeemed like the lyric rapture of a birdSinging ...
As long as the stars of GodHang steadfast in the sky,And the blossoms 'neath the sodAwake when Spring is nigh;As ...
There was a flower in ancient FezThat (so the glowing legend says)Has never lost its matchless lightFrom Summer dawn to ...
Suppose you should forget,After our hope and tears,To wait for me in that shining placeThat lies beyond the years!Suppose I ...
Playing on Sixth AvenueHere's to you, brave Hurdy-gurdy,Grinding out your happy tuneWhile the traffic round you rumbles,In the city's Summer ...
Although I dare to sayMy heart untarnished is from day to day,'Tis not, O Love, that any strength of mineHas ...
I do not need you now! Thus do I endOur days together, O beloved friend;Thus do I shake all remnants ...
Because he brought no tears to her dear grave,Many and many there wereWho whispered, when no single sign he gave,"He ...
I heard the football of the hail;The armies of the skyWere coming down amid the gale,And rank on rank marched ...
There are green islands in the city sea,Where all day long, the endless, passionate wavesBeat, yet destroy not; and their ...
Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living -Glad for Thy Days of sun and of rain;Grateful for ...
She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the land,When morning-glories lit the gleaming wall;And one who watched her, holding her ...
I am the flower within her garden-closeShe cast aside;Ah! had she plucked me, verily, God knows I had not died.I ...
I count the days, beloved; but not thoseWhen you are absent, though my heart well knowsThat they are bleak indeed. ...
It rained all day the day she died,And yet she thought it sweet and fair;She said the sunlight kissed her ...
Back of his splendid song, O think of the songs unsung!Back of his painted dreams, the dreams that he never ...
When Spring, with blossom-haunted lanes,With sudden gusts of rippling rains,Came dancing down the glad young year,How soon my heart forgot ...
There is so much that you can give to me--I cannot bring you anything at all,Save worship and the little, ...
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