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 ...
I WAITED for a single flower to blow,While all about me flowers were running wild:Gold-hearted kingcups, sunnily that smiled,And daisies ...
Fairer than any flowerOf summer's hour,Sweeter than any love-Ay, sweet in truth! -Of her what shall be said?Hope, that is ...
WHAT do I owe the years, that I should bringGreen leaves to crown them King?Blown, barren sands, the thistle, and ...
Love, poised for ready flight,Ruddy as morning light,Bright and as brief his stay;Hope with alluring wingFair as the flowers of ...
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, ...
IT must be sweet, O thou, my dead, to lieWith hands that folded are from every taskSealed with the seal ...
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs, XIII,12Where is the perfect VisionThe years have watched to see?Why do the footsteps ...
WE watched in the dear Home gardenOur tenderest flower that grew:Never a budling rarerThe sun of the ages knew!And we ...
THE green leaves grow and grow,And the birds build in the trees;Ah, sweethearts, could I linger, linger,With soul at ease!O ...
WHO knoweth the hope that was born to me,When the spring - time came with its greenery!With orchard blossoming, fair ...
The music was such discord, all,The flowers they stifled so!He spoke of One on CalvaryLong centuries ago!The hope, the faith, ...
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