From Living Waters (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
IN MEMORY OF CELIA THAXTER.There is shadow on the sea!And a murmur, and a moan,In its muffled monotone,Like a solemn ...
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:A cycle ...
No flower in all the land -No leaf upon the tree,Blossom, or bud, or fruit,But an icy fringe instead;And the ...
Francis D' Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint's,Within his garden where the roses grewThat knew no thorn, slept from a wearinessOf ...
(H. C.)Where in the unknown way,Sister, now standsThy soul-who yesterdayWith us joined hands?Where lies thy land unseen,O Warden Death?With just ...
THE night falls, heavy with the coming storm!Far out, the ocean frets against the bar,And the cloud-legions, gathering force and ...
I grow aweary of my kind-Its petty aims, its creedsThat cripple mind and soul, and blindThe heart to trust needs;Aweary ...
IAt BethlehemShepherds, what of the night?'Dark, dark and cold;Snow upon field and fold,Wind that is fierce and wild!But over the ...
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 ...
We read that under the far Indian skies,The dusk magician with his magic wandCalls from the arid and unseeded sand,Whereon ...
In winter time one steadfast hope I had:When rains should cease to fall,And earth resummoned allHer blossom-quests, I should again ...
FOR the fledgeling bird-life stilled,Its wings untaught,Its music all unbilled;For the poet's voiceless thought,The song unsung;For the loving heart unsought;Hope, ...
O Mother Earth, how couldst thou let him go?Thy son, whose every touch was a caressTo blossom into all of ...
NOT to the brave upon the battle-fieldAlone, the palms of victory belong,Nor only to the great of earth the songOf ...
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs, XIII,12Where is the perfect VisionThe years have watched to see?Why do the footsteps ...
HON. B. P. AVERY DIED IN PEKING, CHINA, NOV. 8, 1875.GOD rest thy soul!O, kind and pure,Tender of heart, yet ...
PEACE in thy snowy breast,O cloud, from storms at rest!Peace in the winds that sleepUpon the deep.Peace in the starry ...
Light of the suns and stars of heaven,The sweet warm air, and the green earth sod,And birth and death unto ...
As bright the dew upon the rose,Though no eye sees its glisten;As sweet the song the singer sings,Though none may ...
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