At Nightfall (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I need so much the quiet of your love, After the day's loud strife; I need ...
Charles Hanson Towne Poems (103 Poems)
Parting (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Leave me some fragment of our love,Some remnant of our bliss,That I may drink the joy thereofThrough days more bleak ...
Of One Self-Slain (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who ...
Understanding (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Flash of steel and crash of drum--Love that way has never come.But adown some quiet nightShe has winged her silent ...
The Voices (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I heard the voice of the city,Calling again and again,And into her arms there hastenedMillion and millions of men.And I ...
Eluded (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Deep in the night I heardThe rain's mysterious word.(It was as if an old love spoke, a dead love sobbed ...
Love of Beauty (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see;The gods give him a vision doubly blest;He sees the bloom upon ...
Resurrection (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
When one had gone awayTo join the quiet dead,Bleak, bleak for me the day,And dark the clouds o'erhead."Her voice I ...
Love and Time (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I said, "Love laughs at Time," before I knewThe perfect joy of wholly loving you;So swift the days went hurrying ...
I Drink The Fragrance of the Rose (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I drink the fragrance of the rose,And yet she has more wealth to give,The perfume from her red heart flows,And ...
Next Door (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
We saw the tapers burnIn the home so close to ours;But however our hearts might yearn,We dared not send our ...
After Drought (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
There came an army from the sky,And surged across the parched plain;I saw the hurrying hosts go by--The blue batallions ...
The Silences (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I left the throbbing city's thundering martFor the great patience that the hills impart,For the white quiet of the steadfast ...
Hope (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
The weariest watch must sometime end,The dreariest Winter must one day close,And under the cover that wraps the earthSleeps the ...
The Flame (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
O moth, that yearns for me,The whole world pities thee,Foredoomed on heedless wing,By mad fire-worshipping.But sadder is my fate,Who, when ...
The Miracle (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
That in your absence I can feel this thrillPulsing my inmost soul; that I can knowSuch wonder and such ecstasy, ...
Rain On The Roof (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Loud on my roof the regiments of rainMarch with their old insistence, and I hearTroop after troop, column and troop ...
Downtown (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
The sun has gone, and from the ferryboatThat like a golden worm crawls through the night,I watch the myriad stars ...
Fifth Avenue At Night (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's earsThe pale lights seem--White gems that shimmer when the dark appearsAnd the old ...
An Autumn Leaf (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Upon my parchment, sadly old,The record lives of Summer's gold;And in my veins there lingers nowThe joy of Spring's awakening ...
A City Sunset (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Across the roof-tops of the townI saw the flaming sun go down;For some, another day of tearsLay buried in the ...
Broadway (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Here surge the ceaseless caravans,Here throbs the city's heart,And down the street each takes his wayTo play his little part.The ...
A Sunset (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Far in the gold-embroidered westThe round and red sun lay,Like a great wound upon the breastOf the slow-dying day.Night, and ...
Estrangement (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
It was so hard to say good-bye,To drift apart from you;But harder still to live the lieThat swept the long ...
Distances (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I had a friend who went awayOver the distant sea,But hill and tide can never hideHis gentle face from me.I ...
Song (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I saw the day's white raptureDie in the sunset's flame,But all her shining beautyLives like a deathless name.Our lamps of ...
Traffic (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Hoof-beats thundering on the paves,Wagons crashing by.(But O I dream of distant waves,God's tent of open sky!)Bells that clamor all ...
Remembrance (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Love was with me yesterday--In the dusk she crept away;But I am light-hearted yet,Since I never can forget.All the world ...
Waiting (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I thought my heart would break Because the Spring was slow. I said, "How long young April sleeps Beneath the ...
Remote (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Somewhere, perchance, there is a loveThat one day I may gain;But O, it is so very far,Through darkness and the ...