The Singer Of The Sea (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IN MEMORY OF CELIA THAXTER.There is shadow on the sea!And a murmur, and a moan,In its muffled monotone,Like a solemn ...
Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems on Life (28 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 ...
Le Chemin De L’ecole (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
A meadow greenly carpeted,A strip of woodland, brown and cool,Through which the wandering pathway ledUnto the village school:The little pathway ...
The Road To School (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
A MEADOW greenly carpeted;A strip of woodland, brown and cool,Through which the wandering pathway ledUnto the village school:The little pathway ...
With A Wreath Of Laurel (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
O WINDS, that ripple the long grass!O winds, that kiss the jeweled sea!Grow still and lingering as you passAbout this ...
Passed (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(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 ...
Helen Hunt Jackson (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
WHAT songs found voice upon those lips, What magic dwelt within the pen,Whose music into silence slips, Whose spell lives not again!For ...
The Night Watch (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IAt BethlehemShepherds, what of the night?'Dark, dark and cold;Snow upon field and fold,Wind that is fierce and wild!But over the ...
Longfellow (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Pleasant as sound of falling rain amongThe summer leaves, and the sweet as after rainThe moist earth is when the ...
Marah (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
"THE song were sweeter and betterIf only the thought were glad."Be hidden the chafe of the fetter,The scars of the ...
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 ...
Wearisome (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The wind it bloweth a-cold, a-cold,And the dreary Winter rain is falling;And over the desolate, drenched woldThe sad sea-voice is ...
On A Fly-Leaf Of Omar (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Poet-Astronomer, who night by nightGod's star-page scanned, yet failed to read aright,Where throughout space His alphabet of sunsSpells Life, in ...
A Prayer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
SOUL! however sweetThe goal to which I hasten with swift feet -If, just within my grasp,I reach, and joy to ...
Frederick III Of Germany (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
THERE fell a King! Not king alone in blood,Nor royal throne by right of which he reigned,But by the royalty ...
Fulfillment (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
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, ...
Sometime (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
UNTO the earth the Summer comes again:She has, to quench her thirst, the dews and rain;She has glad light about ...
Meadowlarks (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Sweet, sweet, sweet! O happy that I am!(Listen to the meadow-larks, across the fields that sing!)Sweet, sweet, sweet! O subtle ...
Not Yet (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NOT yet from the yellow west,Fade, light of the autumn dayFar lies my haven of rest,And rough the way.She has ...
Beside The Dead (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IT must be sweet, O thou, my dead, to lieWith hands that folded are from every taskSealed with the seal ...
The Art Of William Keith (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
HERE, vast and awful, the Sierras rearTheir everlasting summits to the sky;The mighty waters of the sunset lieIn all their ...
The Unknown Great (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
NOT to the brave upon the battle-fieldAlone, the palms of victory belong,Nor only to the great of earth the songOf ...
Lost Love (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
(Song)Love that came in with the morningIs fled with the night!Whither away?Whither away?Gone with nor word, with nor warning,O lost, ...
In Time Of Storm (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Sunshine and melody follow the rain-Patter the rain-drops merrily!Spring joy follows the winter pain,Then, ho! For earth's green holiday.Flutter the ...
Forgotten (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
OH, my heart, when life is done,How happy will the hour be!All its restless errands run:Noontide past, and set of ...
The Unsolvable (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
What use the questioning? This thing we are:A breath called life, housed for a little spaceIn how infinitesimal a star; ...
Life’s Purpose (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Life is not ours to shame, not ours for play,Not ours in idle ease to dream away;But ours for whatsoever ...
Only A Rose (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Only a Rose! Waif of a day is it-So brief a thing, indeed!Yet all the mystery of life is writWithin ...