The Captive Of The White City (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
FLOWER of the foam of the wavesOf the beautiful inland sea, -White as the foam that lavesThe ships of the ...
Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems on Flowers (22 Poems)
Lucifer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:A cycle ...
Oblivion (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
BEYOND the flight of hours,Beneath the rooted flowers,Where winter rain, nor showersOf April, fall;Where days that say "Alas!"Forget to come, ...
Fruitionless (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
AH! little flower, upspringing, azure-eyed, The meadow-brook beside, Dropping delicious balms Into the tender palmsOf lover-winds, that woo with light caress, In still ...
To-Day’s Singing (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
WEAVE me a rhyme to-day:No pleasant roundelay,But some vague, restless yearning' of the heartShaped with but little artTo broken numbers, ...
The Brook (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THROUGH the dreary winter,Ice-locked, white, and chill!All its laughter sleeping,All its music still;Not a flower to love itFrom the bank ...
An Emblem (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I WAITED for a single flower to blow,While all about me flowers were running wild:Gold-hearted kingcups, sunnily that smiled,And daisies ...
Summons (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
LONG, swinging bells of pomegranate!O orange-buds, falling as snow!O singing of lark and of linnet -Singing high in the leaves, ...
Hope (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Fairer than any flowerOf summer's hour,Sweeter than any love-Ay, sweet in truth! -Of her what shall be said?Hope, that is ...
The Lost Note (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IN winter-time one steadfast hope I had:When rains should cease to fall,And earth re-summon allHer blossom-guests, I should again be ...
Retrospect (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(IN LOS ANGELES.)A BREATH of balm - of orange bloom!By what strange fancy wafted me,Through the lone starlight of the ...
Peace (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Love, poised for ready flight,Ruddy as morning light,Bright and as brief his stay;Hope with alluring wingFair as the flowers of ...
Unattained (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
In winter time one steadfast hope I had:When rains should cease to fall,And earth resummoned allHer blossom-quests, I should again ...
“One Touch Of Nature” (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
LARK'S song dropped from heaven,A rose's breath at noon;A still, sweet stream that flows and flowsBeneath a still, sweet moon:A ...
A Fancy (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
I think I would not beA stately tree,Broad-boughed, with haughty crest that seeks the sky;Too many sorrows lieIn years, too ...
“To-Morrow is too far away!” (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
To-Morrow is too far away!A bed of spice the garden is,Nor bud nor blossom that we miss;The roses tremble on ...
The Mariposa Lily (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,Poised upon slender tip, and quiveringTo flight! a flower of the fields of air;A jeweled ...
At The Hill’s Base (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
O Singers, up the heights of goldWhereon Song dwells-with thoughts that runTo music, as the flowers unfoldAnd gladden to the ...
February (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NEWLY wedded, and happy quite,Careless alike of wind and weather,Two wee birds, from a merry flight,Swing in the tree-top, sing ...
Respite (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
SING, lark, far up the sky!Sing, throstle, for love's sake!Sing, sing, as if no heart might ever break!Softly, O summer ...
The Funeral (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The music was such discord, all,The flowers they stifled so!He spoke of One on CalvaryLong centuries ago!The hope, the faith, ...
Discipline (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
UPON the patient earthA thousand tempests beat,To call to life the flowersThat make her glad and sweet.So, o'er the human ...